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Following switchover, some Freeview viewers in parts of the West TV region will be able to receive services from both England and Wales for the first time.

Wales is on track to become the UK’s first digital nation with its final and largest switchover now underway.

Television in 2010 can be received and watched via an aerial, satellite, cable or broadband connection. The Digital Switchover (DSO as it has is in known in the trade) affects any TV that receives its signal from an aerial. If you mainly use an aerial for TV reception, it will receive its signal from a land-based transmitter. In the UK, there are more than 1,150 transmitters organised into around 80 transmitter groups that will switch to digital group by group. Each group has a main switchover transmitter and local relay transmitters.