Digital UK has announced further details of the timetable for digital television switchover in three regions of the UK. In line with the start dates announced by Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell in September 2005, Digital UK has published individual switchover timings for transmitters serving more than 4m households in West Country, Wales and Granada.
West Country
In Q2 2009 the Beacon Hill transmitter, serving south Devon Stockland Hill, south-west Somerset, parts of west Dorset and south-east Devon, including Exeter
In Q3 2009, the Huntshaw Cross ytransmitter, serving north Devon Redruth, serving west Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Caradon Hill, serving much of Cornwall and Devon, including Plymouth.
Wales
In Q3 2009: Preseli, serving south-west Wales and Carmel, serving south Wales. In  Q4 2009: Llanddona, serving north-west Wales, including Anglesey; Moel-Y-Parc, serving north-east Wales
In Q1 2010: Blaenplwyf, serving west and central Wales; Long Mountain, serving east-central Wales; Wenvoe, serving south-east Wales, including Cardiff.
Granada
In Q4 2009: The entire Granada region will switch to digital in this quarter, when the Winter Hill transmitter and its dependent relays – serving Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cheshire, are converted.

At switchover, each transmitter will cease broadcasting analogue television services and begin transmissions of high-power digital signals, making digital TV through an aerial (Freeview) available to virtually all homes.
Currently, one-in-four households cannot receive digital television via an aerial. Digital UK, the independent body leading switchover on behalf of UK broadcasters, is running information and assistance campaigns in the three years leading to switchover in each region. Information booklets are being delivered to every home along with advertising on television, radio and in regional publications.