BBC TWO Colour Analogue switches off in South Wales after over 40 years.

Digital Switch Over 1 happened on Wenvoe in South Wales on the 3rd March 2010
00:59:42 CH51 BBC Two analogue switched off forever
01:00:30 CH41 ITV1 analogue switches off
01:05:52 CH51 ITV1 analogue moves to BBC TWOs old freq.
01:08:55 CH43- MuxC digital switches off (Dave,E4+1)
01:09:45 CH30 Mux1 digital switches off (BBC1,2,3,CBBC)
01:13:52 CH41+ BBCA (was Mux1) starts transmitting, this means that one digital Mux is now available in Valleys via existing relays !
03 am ish CH30- Arquiva A (was MuxC) starts transmitting

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Wenvoe
• PAL colour television ends

[stilltyd]

I did get DSO2, both BBC wales and S4c, but not very good sound becuase my camera was on all 3 screens with sound up on all of them.

You didnt happen to video either direct did you ?

[TheSuperlime]

BBC TWO finishing with Your The Best Around. Indeed it was

[jjovereats]

PAL continues - in SCART, (S-)VHS, and in many digital and analogue video camcorders. I have 2 625-line camcorders (one compact VHS, one Video( Hi)8) and 1 576-line camcorder (my Canon MV960 digital camcorder, uses DV tape)

Also, ( Hi) was not a grammar error. It requires a space at the beginning.

[arthurvasey]

At least Welsh people can now get proper Channel 4 and not just the programmes Sianel Pedwar Cymru has cherry-picked.

Must have annoyed English, Irish and Scottish viewers on holiday in Llandudno or Rhyl or Pwllheli, turning on BBC 1 or 2 and not getting what they would expect, or tuning in to what they think of as Channel 4 and getting Pobol Y Cwm and Newyddion instead of Brookside and having to stay up to 10 pm to watch Brookside!

[allstarsnorks]

My country is lucky, my country only switches off between 2015 to 2020

[wisteela]

Very interesting, and very nicely done.

[glennglog22]

and i'm diginal on tv

[glennglog22]

i do not live in uk only (u nided states)

[glennglog22]

the one on (u nided state) it switch to digital last year

[daanbrg]

@Jamiep84 Haha. I work at the local TV station where we had to switch channels one day too. The modulator, which is the device that sends audio and video to either a cable TV relay or a UHF/VHF transmitter, does not have multiple outputs and usually you don't have multiple cables - you simply have to change the frequency.

You have to do that w/ a screwdriver - usually, on the front there are screws you have to turn to change to the desired frequency.

That's why it seems they turn it off.

[9acmotoko9]

I have lots of questions!

1. What is Mux 1/C, CH51, CH41/+, CH43-, BBCA, CH30/-, Arquiva A? (I dont know what they all mean/ stand for.) Is it like bandwith or frequency or something?

2. At 5:06 what is the blue dialogue box on the smaller TVs screen? Is it from Windows or something to do with ur TV?

3. Why did ITV go into BBC2s place?

4. Why did BBC News freeze on screen?

Ok thanks and Im a teen so I dont know much about it, and I wanna record my region when I switch over in the west! :)