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24/10/2012
NI Throws Final Switch On UK Analogue TV
The analogue TV signal in Northern Ireland has been switched off, completing the UK's transition to digital broadcasting.
It was the last UK region to switch off its signal, bringing an end to the 80-year-old transmission technology and heralding the dawn of the digital age.
An hour-long special programme, The Magic Box, hosted by Eamonn Holmes was shown as a joint broadcast UTV and BBC One NI.
Billed as a nostalgic celebration of "the best of Northern Ireland television over the past 60 years", the programme featured contributions and clips from many well known faces from UTV and BBC Northern Ireland, including Gloria Hunniford, Patrick Kielty, Jackie Fullerton, Gordon Burns, Julian Simmons, Rose Neill, Paul Clarke and Noel Thompson.
Northern Ireland's most successful Olympian, Dame Mary Peters, was given the honour of switching off the UK's last active analogue transmitter at Divis Mountain in Belfast.
She described it as "a great privilege".
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It was the last UK region to switch off its signal, bringing an end to the 80-year-old transmission technology and heralding the dawn of the digital age.
An hour-long special programme, The Magic Box, hosted by Eamonn Holmes was shown as a joint broadcast UTV and BBC One NI.
Billed as a nostalgic celebration of "the best of Northern Ireland television over the past 60 years", the programme featured contributions and clips from many well known faces from UTV and BBC Northern Ireland, including Gloria Hunniford, Patrick Kielty, Jackie Fullerton, Gordon Burns, Julian Simmons, Rose Neill, Paul Clarke and Noel Thompson.
Northern Ireland's most successful Olympian, Dame Mary Peters, was given the honour of switching off the UK's last active analogue transmitter at Divis Mountain in Belfast.
She described it as "a great privilege".
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