ITU Region 1 Africa • : Digital broadcasting started in 2009, analogue signals were switched off first in Annaba Region in mid-2020 and completed in November 2020. • : Started transitioning to digital in the early 2010s. The analogue switch off happened to complete at the end of 2019. • : The switchover is complete. Analogue switchoff started on 17 June 2015 and it was completed in 2016. • : All analogue signals were turned off on 17 June 2016. • : Analogue switch-off occurred in June 2015, switching to
DVB-T. • : Launched its DTV service from the Centre Émetteur D'Abobo site in Abidjan on 8 February 2019. Côte d'Ivoire completed the migration to DTT in June 2020. • : After DTT launched in 2008, analogue switch off was supposed to take place in 2013, however media houses challenged the move in court and the switch off was since moved to 31 December 2014 for the metropolitan areas and their surroundings while in the rest of the country switched to
DVB-T2 in March 2015. • : 7 multiplexes of DVB-T2 were available in Tripoli in 2012. Analogue television was turned off on 13 February 2020. • : The switchover is complete. Analogue shut off on 17 June 2014. Analogue transmitters on UHF band were switched off on 17 June 2015. Analogue transmitters on VHF band were switched off on 17 June 2020. • : The first African country to go digital when it launched DTT in February 2005. Analogue signals were terminated on 13 September 2014. • : Shut off the last of its analogue signals in 31 July 2014. Switched to
DVB-T, with plans to upgrade to
DVB-T2 in the future. • : In 2018, they launched their DTT Service where both analogue and digital signals coexist, but after a period of instability on DTT, it became stabilized and ultimately been switched off in 2020. • : Digital broadcasts began in 2010, using
DVB-T, then since 2015, using
DVB-T2. Analogue television was turned off on 28 December 2016. • : Shut off analogue signals in 2015. • : Analogue shut off on 31 December 2014. Switched to
DVB-T2.
Europe and CIS • : The original analogue switch-off deadline was planned for July 2015, however this was missed due to multiple problems. Analogue channels were first shut off on 10 September 2018 in the areas of Durrës and Tirana, but they were restored later in the day because the supply of DVB-T2 decoders was not enough to cover the demand. The date was then postponed to January 2019 and finally October 2019. On 1 October 2019, analogue broadcasts were shut off in most areas, including Tirana and Durrës. A few channels switched off their transmissions a few days later.
A1 Report (now Report TV) was the last to keep the warning screen on air. The date for cities like Elbasan was set for March 2020, the transmissions still being receivable in Tirana with a big enough aerial. Areas like Dibër, Gjirokastër, Vlora and Saranda remained on air with the switch-off date being postponed multiple times. Albania finally completed the transition on 29 December 2020 with the last analogue broadcast being in Gjirokastër by
Televizioni Klan. Analogue satellite broadcasts stopped in 2002 shortly before the introduction of digital satellite. • : Analogue switch-off completed on 25 September 2007. • : Began analogue switch-off on 5 March 2007, progressing from the west to the east. The analogue broadcast was shut down nationwide at the end of 2010 regarding the main transmitters. The last analogue translators were switched off on 7 June 2011. • : Began analogue switch-off on 17 October 2010, completed on 17 June 2015. • : Analogue broadcasting was disabled on 15 May 2015 in the UHF band and 16 June 2015 in the VHF band (channels 6–12). The final analogue switch-off occurred on 4 January 2016. • : Media regulations are under regional legislation.
Flanders switched off analogue television on 3 November 2008, while in
Wallonia, all analogue services were switched off on 1 March 2010, making the country completely serviced by a digital signal. The last cable tv provider Telenet switched off analogue cable in late 2021. • : There was a DVB-T service launched in 2015 but it was not available on all parts of the country. The switchover began on 1 July 2025 and it was expected to be completed on 3 December 2025. However, due to procedural and procurement issues, revolving around under-utilised funding and a lack of effective management structures, it is expected to be completed by Q2 of 2026. • : A free-to-air platform launched in the Sofia region, starting in November 2004. The Communications Regulatory Commission (CRC) said that it received six bids for the licence to build and operate Bulgaria's two nationwide DTT networks. A second licence tender for the operation of three DTT multiplexes was open until 27 May 2009. Following the closing of this process, Hannu Pro, part of Silicon Group, and with Baltic Operations secured the license to operate three DTT multiplexes in Bulgaria by the country's Communications Regulatory Commission (CRC). Bulgaria completed the transition to digital broadcasting on 30 September 2013. • : Analogue television broadcasts were switched off for all national TV channels on 5 October 2010 at 12:35 and for local TV channels on 20 November 2010. • : The last analogue transmitters in Southeast Moravia and Northern Moravia – Silesia were switched off on 30 June 2012. • : All terrestrial analogue services switched off at midnight on 1 November 2009. Analogue cable was switched off on 9 February 2016. Analogue satellite was terminated by 2006 when
DR2 and
TV3 ended their analogue signals on the
Intelsat 10-02/
Thor satellite at 0.8°W. DR 2 was the last ever broadcast using the
D2-MAC standard when it closed on 1 July. • : Launched DTT in December 2002. Most of the analogue signals were switched off immediately. • : Analogue television was switched off completely on 1 July 2010. • : Analogue terrestrial transmissions ceased nationwide at 04:00 on 1 September 2007 (the switch-off was previously planned for midnight but a few extra hours were added for technical reasons). This was controversial, as the cost of a digital TV set in Finland at the time was heavily criticised and saw a substantial decrease in how much the
television license cost. Cable TV viewers continued to receive analogue broadcasts until the end of February 2008. • : All analogue services (terrestrial, satellite and cable) switched off on 29 November 2011. This included overseas departments and territories such as
Guadeloupe,
French Guiana,
Martinique,
Mayotte,
Réunion,
French Polynesia,
New Caledonia,
Saint Barthélemy,
Saint Martin,
Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and
Wallis and Futuna. • : All analogue services switched off on Tuesday, 29 November 2011. • : All analogue services switched off on Tuesday, 29 November 2011. • : All analogue services switched off on Tuesday, 29 November 2011. • : All analogue services switched off on Tuesday, 29 November 2011. • : All analogue services switched off on Tuesday, 29 November 2011. • : All analogue services switched off on Tuesday, 29 November 2011. • : All analogue services switched off on Tuesday, 29 November 2011. • : All analogue services switched off on Tuesday, 29 November 2011. • : All analogue services switched off on Tuesday, 29 November 2011. • : All analogue services switched off on Tuesday, 29 November 2011. • : All analogue services switched off on Tuesday, 29 November 2011. • : Analogue switch-off began in Berlin on 1 November 2002 and completed on 4 August 2003, becoming the first city to do so.
Simulcast digital transmissions started in other parts of the country in an effort to prepare for a full switchover. Terrestrial analogue switch-off transmitters was completed on 25 November 2007, except one main transmitter in
Bad Mergentheim, which was shut down on 4 June 2009. Analogue satellite receivers were still used by 6% of households in 2010 as the highest in Europe. The analogue satellite transmissions (broadcasting on
Astra 19.2°E) were switched off on 30 April 2012, being the last in Europe. However, analogue cable were still used by about 30% of the population and 55% of all cable broadcasts. The cable TV provider Unitymedia switched off analogue cable on 27 June 2017. • : Launched digital services in
Nuuk in August 2002. The last settlement that upgraded to digital was
Siorapaluk in 2012, with analogue switched off in October. • : Digital broadcasting of privately owned nationwide TV channels began by
Digea in Greece on 24 September 2009, covering a large section of the
Corinthian gulf in Northern
Peloponnese. During the 2009–13 transition period, a total of 13 digital broadcasting centers were activated throughout Greece, covering approximately 70% of the Greek population. Analogue terrestrial transmissions were first terminated at the
Peloponnese region on 27 June 2014. Five more switch-offs followed in 2014 and the analogue shutdown was completed on 6 February 2015. Α total of 156 broadcasting centres are currently active throughout the country, covering over 96% of the country's population. • : Magyar analogue terrestrial transmissions officially stopped on Thursday, 31 October 2013, after completing two phases that ended on 31 July and 31 October, respectively. However, analogue transmissions are still operating as of August 2021 on cable systems, at least. • : All analogue terrestrial transmissions were switched off on Monday, 2 February 2015. • : Digital terrestrial television was launched in Ireland as
Saorview on Friday 29 October 2010. and was replaced by a second multiplex for Saorview. A small number of low power independent analogue re-broadcast systems remained licensed until 31 December 2012. Analogue cable was shut down on 8 April 2019. Analogue satellite from
Astra 19.2°E was discontinued on 27 September 2001. • : The conversion to digital television progressed region–by–region. It started in
Sardinia on 15 October 2008, and was completed on Wednesday, 4 July 2012, when the last analogue transmitters in the
Province of Palermo were shut down. The switchover was politically controversial due to a 2004 law that seemed to favor
Mediaset, owned by the Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi, in the television market. A 2006 bill proposed by
Paolo Gentiloni passed the government of
Romano Prodi that would make one of Mediaset's channels as well as one from public broadcaster
RAI move to digital three years before the switch. The bill was called "tailored for political revenge" by Berlusconi. In 2011, the
European Court of Justice ruled that the digital switchover in Italy was illegally subsidised favoring Berlusconi's media group. Analogue satellite broadcasts were switched off from the
Hot Bird 13°E satellite on 29 April 2005 by RAI. • : DTT services rolled out officially in 2014, and the transition to digital ended in 2017. • : Analogue television completely converted to digital broadcasting on Tuesday, 1 June 2010. • : The switch-off of the analogue terrestrial transmissions was completed on Monday, 29 October 2012. • : Luxembourg was the first country to completely switch to digital broadcasting and shut down analogue TV, completing the transition on Friday, 1 September 2006. The last analogue transmitter was shut down on UHF Channel 21 on Friday, 31 December 2010. • : Launched its first DTT service in November 2016. Analogue broadcasts were discontinued from May 2022. The process was somewhat difficult due to the high costs of upgrading to digital. • : DTT based on DVB-T started broadcasting on 30 December 2012 but only in testing phase until 2015. The DVB-T2 public rollout commenced in April 2016. Analogue broadcasts for Transnistria shut down in the period 2018–2019. • : Analogue transmissions were terminated on Saturday, 1 June 2013. • : All analogue services terminated on Monday, 31 October 2011. The switch-off was originally planned for Wednesday, 1 June 2011 but was delayed for unknown reasons. • : Analogue TV broadcasts switched off on Tuesday, 24 May 2011. • : Shut down analogue signals on 17 June 2015. • : Moved to digital-only terrestrial broadcasting on Monday, 11 December 2006, being the second country to do so. The switch-off was noticed by few, since the overwhelming majority receive TV via cable and only around 74,000 households relied on terrestrial over-the-air broadcasts. Analogue satellite transmissions from
Astra 19.2°E were halted on 18 August 1996, just two months after digital was introduced. This was felt by few people, however, due to low satellite usage. • : The switch-off of the analogue transmissions started in March 2008 and was completed on Tuesday, 1 December 2009. Norway started its DTT service on the Saturday 1 September 2007. Analogue satellite broadcasts of
NRK and
TV 2 on the
Thor 4.3°W satellite ended on 15 October 2002. • : Terrestrial television in Poland is broadcast using a digital DVB-T system. First test
DVB-T emission was carried in
Warsaw at 9 November 2001. In April 2004, first
DVB-T transmitter near
Rzeszów started operation, and local
TVP division started to market
set-top boxes allowing to receive it. The shutdown of analogue broadcasts took place in 7 steps from 7 November 2012 to 23 July 2013 when analogue terrestrial transmissions were completely terminated. Analogue broadcasts on satellite ended when
TVN stopped its analogue transmission on the
Hot Bird 13°E satellite in 2008. Later, in early 2022, most of TV markets (
Polsat, TVN,
TV Puls, etc.) switched into the
DVB-T2 HEVC, while TVP, due to
Russian invasion of Ukraine, did it on 15 December (west) and 19 December (east), 2023. • : Digital terrestrial broadcasts started on Wednesday, 29 April 2009. Portugal's government hoped to cover 80% of the territory with digital terrestrial TV by the end of 2009, and simulcasts remained until Thursday, 26 April 2012, when the analogue broadcasting ended. This switchover began on Thursday 12 January 2012. Analogue cable remained available from all pay-TV providers (including fiber), for homes with multiple televisions. The digital versions of all channels have traditionally been encrypted and could only be accessed with a proprietary set-top-box, which subscribers had to pay for with a monthly fee. Starting in October 2017, cable provider NOS unencrypted the digital versions of its base channels, enabling them to be tuned directly by televisions with support for MPEG-4 (or digital terrestrial) or any freely available digital tuner. Channels belonging to subscription packs, as well as premium channels, still require a proprietary set top box to be viewed. Other pay-TV providers – Vodafone, NOWO and Meo – similarly no longer encrypt the digital versions of their base channels. Starting on February 2021, analogue cable was entierly discontinued on NOWO. In October 2022, plans have been made to close analogue cable signals on NOS. In late April 2023, viewers would see a message announcing the end of this kind of analogue broadcasting on 3 May 2023, unless they bought a set-top box and/or scanned digital signals. As of November 2025, analogue cable does remain available on Meo and Vodafone, albeit with a reduced number of channels from previous years. • : The country has one of the highest pay-TV penetration rates in Europe, with over 98% of homes receiving cable or satellite TV services. Also, over 90% of population are covered with
DVB-T2 digital terrestrial television signal. Analogue broadcasts were first set to shutdown in 2012, but it was delayed multiple times, until they were finally switched off on 1 May 2018. However, as of June 2024, analogue television is still offered by cable operators. • : Analogue switch-off completed on Thursday, 2 December 2010. • : Launched its first DTT transmissions in 2005. The first DTT-only channel was made available in 2008. As of 2013, the
DVB-T2 network covers
Belgrade and much of
Vojvodina, several cities in
Šumadija and Western Serbia and the southern city of
Niš. Digital TV switchover for 98% of citizens started on 1 September 2014. Transition progressed in six stages. First switch-off took place in Vršac on 15 April 2015. Last switch-off took place on 7 June 2015. • : Analogue transmission finished broadcasts on Monday, 31 December 2012. • : The switch-off of main transmitters was completed on Wednesday, 1 December 2010. The last local analogue transmitters were switched off on Thursday, 30 June 2011. • : The switch-off of the analogue terrestrial transmissions was completed on Saturday, 3 April 2010. The switch-off was successful, as about 70% of Spanish television transmissions are terrestrial, so it was easy for people to just switch to the digital signal. Spain started its DTT service on Wednesday 30 November 2005. • : began experimenting DTT in 1999, Regular DTT broadcasts began in 2002, switched off analog signals on 30 March 2010. • : The switch-off of the analogue terrestrial network progressed region–by–region. It started on the island of
Gotland on Monday, 19 September 2005, and was completed on Monday 15 October 2007, when the last analogue
SVT1 transmitters in
Blekinge and western
Scania were shut down. Cable broadcasters continued to broadcast in analogue until 2020. Analogue broadcasts from the
Sirius and
Thor satellites were ended by April 2004. • (including ): Switch-off began on Monday 24 July 2006 in
Ticino and continued with
Engadin on Monday, 13 November 2006. The switch-off was completed on Monday, 26 November 2007. A very high percentage of Swiss viewers receive their signals via cable distributors. By 2012, 40% of cable viewers had switched to digital. Analogue cable was switched off on 1 January 2017. The country switched off its terrestrial network entirely in 2019 due to low penetration. • (including ): Digital terrestrial broadcasting began in the UK on Sunday, 15 November 1998 with the launch of ONdigital, later renamed
ITV Digital, which was replaced by
Freeview after
its collapse. The transition from analogue and digital to digital-only terrestrial signals started on Wednesday, 17 October 2007 with the
Whitehaven transmitter in
Cumbria, and followed a
transmitter switchover timetable, implemented by region. The first
constituent country to switch off all its analogue signals was
Wales on 31 March 2010 Analogue cable broadcasts eventually ended and fully ceased on 28 November 2013, when
Milton Keynes finally saw their service terminate, after a settling of a cable ownership dispute between
BT Group and
Virgin Media. Analogue satellite from the Astra 19.2E satellite was discontinued on Thursday, 27 September 2001. Sales of analogue TV sets stopped on 6 July 2010. • : Analogue transmissions ceased in December 2012 (replaced by DVB-T
Gibraltar Freeview) • : All analogue services switched off on Thursday, 16 July 2009. • and : Analogue signals switched off on Wednesday, 17 November 2010. • : Analogue switch-off completed on 24 October 2012. • : Scotland ended its analogue broadcasts on 22 June 2011. • : The vast majority of transmitters stopped broadcasting just after midnight on 31 March 2010. However analogue transmissions were still broadcast from the New Radnor and Garth Hill transmitters in Wales, until 20 April 2011. • : Digital transition completed in 2012.
ITU region 2 (Americas) • : The
Bermuda Broadcasting Company terminated terrestrial
NTSC-M broadcasts in March 2016.
ZFB-TV (analogue channel 7) and
ZBM-TV (analogue channel 9), the two television stations in Bermuda, switched to digital channels 20.1 and 20.2, respectively. Like its parent nation (the United Kingdom) and unlike the United States, Canada, and the
Bahamas (which have been transitioning to
ATSC), Bermuda switched over to
DVB-T. • : Began free-to-air HD digital transmissions, after a period of test broadcasts, on Sunday, 2 December 2007 in
São Paulo, expanding in 2008 to
Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, and
Belo Horizonte. Digital broadcasts were phased into the other 23 state capitals in the following years, and to the remaining cities by 31 December 2013. The country started on 1 March 2016 in
Rio Verde, Goiás as a pilot experiment, followed by the
Federal District and main cities and metropolitan regions from 17 November 2016 to 2020. The transition was completed in most of the country on 9 January 2019; analogue signals in the country's remaining rural areas were initially expected to switch off in 2023; however, the Brazilian Ministry of Communications announced a delay in the switch-off up until June 2025, when most of them were closed. Satellite analog switch-off completed on 30 June 2025. However, because of the
2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods, some free-to-air signals were maintained in that region of the country and were expected to switch-off later in the year. The last signals were switched off on 31 December 2025. • : Canada's DTV transition was completed in 28 mandatory markets on Wednesday, 31 August 2011. Some
CBC analogue transmitters in mandatory markets were permitted to operate for another year, and transmitters outside mandatory markets were given the option of converting to digital, or remaining in analogue. The
CBC decided to shut down all (more than 600) of its remaining analogue transmitters on Tuesday, 31 July 2012, without replacing them. Also on 31 August 2011, all full-power TV transmitters had to vacate channels 52 to 69. There does however remain a very small number of community-based transmitters broadcasting in analogue. See
Digital television in Canada. • , repeater of the
Canal 13 network, on 23 March 2024. The digital transition occurred that week on the Coquimbo region (where Ovalle is located).: The transition to digital started in 2012. The transition started on 13 March 2024 in the
Arica y Parinacota,
Tarapacá,
Aysén and
Magallanes regions, finishing on 19 March 2024. The
Atacama,
Los Rios,
Coquimbo and
Los Lagos regions started the transition on 20 March 2024, and finished during midnight on 26 March 2024. It continued on 27 March 2024 in the
Ñuble,
O'Higgins,
Maule and
Antofagasta, concluding on 2 April 2024. The last phase of the analogue shutdown started on 3 April 2024 in the
Araucanía,
Biobío,
Valparaíso and
Metropolitan regions, and concluding on 9 April 2024, ending analogue broadcasts in the entire country. Before that, some independent regional stations shut down their analogue broadcasts prior to the official deadline. • : Tenders started in July 2019. Analogue shutdown started on 3 April 2024, and ended on 9 April 2024, due to it being in the Valparaíso region. • : First phase began on 31 December 2016, second phase was completed on 31 December 2019. The whole country is now entirely covered by DTV. • : Digital broadcasts started in 2000, with the first being
Tijuana's
XETV – an English-language television station that primarily served San Diego, California between the 1960s and the early 2010s. Analogue shutdown was originally scheduled to occur in 2012, but on Thursday, 2 September 2010, Mexican government advanced the analogue shutdown from 2012 to 2015. From 2013, areas began to be switched over regionally depending on the presence of digital terrestrial stations and a campaign headed by the
SCT to distribute free television converters to households on the government welfare rolls. The first digital switchover was to begin on Tuesday, 28 May 2013 in Tijuana, but was postponed to 18 July due to the 2013
Baja California state elections. The switchover was completed nationwide on 31 December 2015, when all remaining analogue television stations left the air. • : A deadline for transition to digital broadcasting was set as 17 February 2009, but was extended and performed instead on 12 June 2009. Exceptions to the 12 June deadline included
low-power stations, and
"nightlight" stations which broadcast
PSAs on the transition until 12 July 2009.
Class A low-power stations were then required to transition to digital by 1 September 2015. The low-power and translator station deadline was suspended on 24 April 2015, due to concerns that the then-upcoming
600 MHz spectrum auction could "potentially displace a significant number of LPTV and TV translator stations", and would "require" analogue stations to incur the costs of transitioning to digital before completion of the auction and repacking process". After the auction's completion in 2017, the FCC announced 13 July 2021 as the new analogue low-power shutoff date. On 21 June 2021, the FCC granted the State of Alaska an extension due to novel factors that prevented the completion of stations digital facilities, setting a new low-power analogue shutoff date of 10 January 2022. • : Complied with the FCC transition to
ATSC digital on
12 June 2009 on all full-power stations.
ITU region 3 Asia • : Shut down analogue signals on 10 July 2015. • : The analogue terrestrial transmissions were terminated on 13 February 2012 and was replaced by a multiplex in DVB-T2. The government was planned to turn off analogue cable by 31 March 2023. Bahrain was transitioning from using MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 for its terrestrial broadcasts, a process which began on 26 August 2012. Bahrain adopted DVB-T2 in March 2013. Analogue satellite transmission were switched off on 1 March 2004. • : Military broadcaster
BFBS operates fully on digital. • : The country selected the standard of
DVB-T2 with first launch in 2014. Full transition to digital terrestrial television broadcasting were completed on 31 December 2017. switched to digital, in which time the legal holders of satellite television receivers were limited to regional cable television providers, thus China never actually has the analogue satellite television service provided to the masses. Analogue cable television services were largely discontinued in the late 2000s and early 2010s. On 14 May 2016, all channels of China Central Television as the country's state broadcaster officially converted to digital broadcasting in a 4-step conversion. First analogue broadcasting television station officially turn off on 30 August 2020 at 23:59:59
CST (
UTC+8) for all
Hunan Province on
Hunan Television only and all analogue broadcastings officially full-time completely turn off on
New Year's Eve (31 December) 2020 at 03:59:59
CST (
UTC+8) for all nationwide (including
Shanghai and
Suzhou) so all analogue broadcastings officially full-time completely turn off on 31 March 2021 at 23:59:59
CST (
UTC+8) for all
Shaanxi Province. On
New Year's Eve (31 December) 2020 at 04:00:00
CST (
UTC+8), the digital terrestrial television of the People's Republic of China fully turned, shifted and switched to all full
high definition for all nationwide (including
Shanghai and
Suzhou). On 1 April 2021, the digital terrestrial television of the People's Republic of China fully turned, shifted and switched to all full
high definition for all
Shaanxi Province. • : Transitioned to digital television as part of Australia's transition to digital television. In line with Regional and Remote Western Australia, analogue TV simulcasts would have ended by 25 June 2013. • : Transitioned to digital television as part of Australia's transition to digital television. In line with Regional and Remote Western Australia, analogue TV simulcasts would have ended by 25 June 2013. • : All analogue transmissions terminated on 30 June 2011 and moved to digital-only transmissions on MPEG-4 on Friday, 1 July 2011. • : Broadcaster
BRT halted analogue signals on 31 March 2019, replaced by DVB-T which started testing in the country in 2009. • : Analogue broadcasts were planned to switch-off by 17 June 2015, but due to the flooding in Tbilisi, which occurred on the night of 13 to 14 June 2015, the analogue switchover happened on 1 July 2015. • : The original digital switchover plan from PAL to DTMB was supposed to take place in 2012. After being postponed multiple times, analogue broadcasting officially ended from 30 November 2020 at 23:59
HKT, when all analogue transmissions turned off. A total of 160,000 lower-income households also received subsidies from the government to buy digital television sets or a set-top box to get a digital signal following the transition. • : Digital terrestrial television was launched on 21 December 2010 (by DVB-T) and 20 November 2013 (by DVB-T2). Following legalization of
Act No. 11 of 2020 on Job Creation on 2 December 2020, the
Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (Kemenkominfo) through its minister
Johnny G. Plate announced that 2 November 2022 would be the last analogue switchover date for the migration to digital television under DVB-T2 system. On 12 May 2021, the government of Indonesia announced that the analogue switch off would be implemented gradually in much simplified three stages to accelerate the migration. Analogue broadcasting station in
Jakarta along with 173 regencies/cities non-terrestrial services was officially turned off on 2 November 2022 at 11:59:59pm (except
ANTV,
RCTI,
MNCTV,
GTV and
iNews on 3 November 2022).
Batam,
Bandung,
Semarang,
Surakarta and
Yogyakarta followed on 2 December 2022;
Surabaya on 20 December 2022;
Banjarmasin on 20 March 2023;
Bali and
Palembang on 31 March 2023;
Makassar on 20 June 2023 and
Medan on 30 July 2023. On 15 July 2023 at stroke of midnight,
Trans Media (
Trans TV and
Trans7) and
Emtek/
SCM (
SCTV and
Indosiar) officially completed the shutdown. On 31 July 2023 at stroke of midnight,
Viva Group,
RTV and
NET officially completed the shutdown of analogue broadcast nationwide followed by
MNC Group on 1 August 2023 at stroke of midnight. On 12 August 2023, the digital terrestrial television of Indonesia fully turned, shifted and switched to all
high definition on all thirteen local free-to-air terrestrial television station. Previously, on 2 November 2022,
LPP TVRI had turned off its analogue broadcasts or analogue switch off (ASO) and replaced them with digital broadcasts throughout the region at exactly 12:01am (
UTC+7) / 1:01am (
UTC+8) / 2:01am (
UTC+9). Thus,
TVRI became the first television station (multiplexing operator) to stop its analogue broadcasts. • : Started digital transmissions in MPEG-4 on 2 August 2009 and analogue transmissions ended on 31 March 2011. A second MUX in DVB-T2 was launched in August 2015. • : The analogue shutdown began on 24 July 2010 in
Suzu, Ishikawa as a pilot experiment. • : Adopted the DTMB standard as mainland China and Hong Kong in 2008. Analogue terrestrial television broadcasts were ended on 30 June 2023. There is no deadline yet for converting analogue cable television broadcasts to digital. • : Early DTT broadcasts were rolled out in January 2014 starting in selected test areas, while full nationwide coverage to an estimated 98% populated areas was expected by the end of the analogue-digital simulcast period.
Langkawi was the first area to commence the digital switchover on 21 July 2019 at 02:30 am (
UTC+8). Later, on 6 August 2019, MCMM released the complete list of transition date on the remaining areas. The
Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) announced in late September that the full digital transition was to be completed on 31 October 2019. The digital transition in West Malaysia was completed on 15 October 2019 at 12:30 am with East Malaysia later on 31 October 2019 also at 12:30 am. • : The country adopted DVB-T2 in 2014, with digital switchover completed in 2015. • : Digital switchover progressed region–by–region, with the first analogue transmitters in
Uljin, North Gyeongsang Province ending transmissions on Wednesday, 1 September 2010. All broadcasts from analogue transmitters in the country officially ended on 31 December 2012 at 03:59:59
KST (
UTC+9)
nationwide (including those located in cities within the
Seoul Capital Area,
Gyeonggi Province and
Incheon). On
New Year's Eve (31 December) 2012 at 04:00:00
KST (
UTC+9), the digital terrestrial television signals of
South Korea began broadcasting in
ultra high definition nationwide. • : Digital television launched terrestrially throughout Taiwan on 2 July 2004 with the implementation of the
DVB-T2 standard. Analogue terrestrial television ended transmission on 30 June 2012 while the shut down of analogue cable television was underway. • : The Thai National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) and broadcasters conducted a field trial for digital terrestrial transmission of DVB-T2 in
Bangkok area in 2013. The following year, digital terrestrial television began to be launched. The digital transition started in 2017 for some channels; analogue broadcasting ended on all remaining channels in 2020. By 2018, rural areas in Thailand saw the transition from analogue to digital. By September 2018,
Channel 3 (owned by BEC and
MCOT) was the last broadcaster to offer analogue services; it completely changed to digital in late 2019 on VHF while the one on UHF ended to broadcast on analogue TV on 25 March 2020 at 11:57 pm (
UTC+7). • : The analogue terrestrial transmissions were terminated on the end of 2013 and replaced by a multiplex in DVB-T2. The government was planned to turn off analogue cable by 31 March 2023. United Arab Emirates were transitioning from using MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 for its terrestrial broadcasts, a process which began on 26 August 2012. United Arab Emirates adopted DVB-T2 in February 2013. Analogue satellite transmission were switched off on 1 March 2004. Digital television launched terrestrially throughout Arab world on 11 June 2006 (known as Nilesat). • : The launch of digital broadcasting began on 15 January 2018. The first regions to turn off their analogue broadcasts were
Andijan,
Fergana,
Namangam and
Tashkent Region. On 15 July 2018, the switch-off was completed on the city of
Tashkent, and on 5 December 2018, the shutdown of analogue television in Uzbekistan was completed. • : The country launched
DVB-T tests in 2002 and it was rolled out nationwide in 2005. On 27 December 2011, Prime Minister
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng issued Decree No. 2451/QD-TTg approving the country television project of "Digitisation of terrestrial television transmission and broadcasting in 2020" (also called as the Project of Digitisation of Television) which prescribes that before 31 December 2020, analogue television broadcasting in 63
Vietnam provinces and cities would be switched to digital terrestrial television under the
DVB-T2 system. Analogue signals first switched-off on 1 November 2015 and complete migration into digital television began taking place from 30 November 2020 before the final analogue shutdown being announced the following month by the country Prime Minister on 31 December. Since January 2020, a total of 1.3 million digital television receivers for both poor and near-poor households were provided directly by Vietnam's public utility telecommunications service provision of the
Ministry of Information and Communications in 48 provinces and cities under the television digitization program of the central government. By 30 June, a total of 21 provinces had indefinitely stop broadcasting analogue and migrated into digital broadcasting. • : FSMTC (FSM Telecommunications Company) provides a subscription based digital over the air (DVB-T) service to Kosrae, Chuuk and Yap. This provides various international television channels and a local information channel. No local television broadcasters operate in FSM. • : After 20 years of analogue, they switched Analogue systems to digital. • : Complied with the FCC transition to
ATSC digital on
12 June 2009 on all full-power stations. • : Digital terrestrial television broadcasts began officially in April 2008. Analogue PAL switch-off started on 30 September 2012 with the North Island's
Hawke's Bay region and the South Island's
West Coast region and finished with the Upper North Island which was switched off 1 December 2013. • : Digital terrestrial television began on or before 30 September 2009 with a two frequency service rebroadcasting a number of Australian national and commercial TV channels and two ABC radio stations. Unlike the rest of Australia, the channels were 8 MHz wide on the UHF band using European channel numbers. The transition was completed on 10 December 2013. Today, digital television is broadcast on 7 MHZ channels over VHF and UHF similar to the rest of Australia. ==Transitions in progress==