Campaign aims to inform viewers of digital TV switch

COMMUNITY groups have launched an awareness programme to ensure thousands of TV viewers don’t lose access to their favourite programmes as a result of the scheduled switchover to digital TV in October.

Irish Rural Link and The Wheel have come together for the initiative, which follows on from a recent survey indicating that almost 250,000 people were still unaware that analogue TV signals will be switched off on October 24.

From that date, anyone who currently obtains their TV reception from analogue signals will face blank screens unless they switch over to digital TV.