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04/04/2003
Digital switchover is on target says report
Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell today welcomed the progress made by industry towards achieving the 2006 - 2010 target for the digital switchover.
And responding to a joint ITC/BBC report Progress Towards Digital
Switchover, she stressed the government would take the necessary
steps to ensure that the challenging target is met.
The report shows that take up of digital television - at 40% today - could almost double over the next five years.
Tessa Jowell said: "I welcome this report. It underlines how well the market has done by itself in driving forward digital take-up. It is to be applauded for
this.
"Doomsayers may suggest we won't meet the target. I would say to them
that if industry can make this much progress on its own, anything is possible. The strong take-up since the launch of Freeview shows digital television is a product the public wants."
The report focuses on a five-year period to assist planning for digital switchover later in the decade. Owing to the inevitable uncertainty stemming from a re-launch of the DTT platform, the ITC and the BBC have suggested a take-up range for the next five years, from 58% to around 78% at the upper end of expectations.
The aim of the research is to consider the progress to date in the development of the digital television market and to help consider how long broadcasting of analogue services should continue.
(GMcG)
And responding to a joint ITC/BBC report Progress Towards Digital
Switchover, she stressed the government would take the necessary
steps to ensure that the challenging target is met.
The report shows that take up of digital television - at 40% today - could almost double over the next five years.
Tessa Jowell said: "I welcome this report. It underlines how well the market has done by itself in driving forward digital take-up. It is to be applauded for
this.
"Doomsayers may suggest we won't meet the target. I would say to them
that if industry can make this much progress on its own, anything is possible. The strong take-up since the launch of Freeview shows digital television is a product the public wants."
The report focuses on a five-year period to assist planning for digital switchover later in the decade. Owing to the inevitable uncertainty stemming from a re-launch of the DTT platform, the ITC and the BBC have suggested a take-up range for the next five years, from 58% to around 78% at the upper end of expectations.
The aim of the research is to consider the progress to date in the development of the digital television market and to help consider how long broadcasting of analogue services should continue.
(GMcG)
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Ofcom report to urge action on digital television switchover
Government and industry cannot rely on market forces alone to deliver near-universal switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting in television, Ofcom Chief Executive Stephen Carter has warned.
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