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Digital switch-over in Scotland

On Thursday morning 52,000 households in the Scottish Borders will wake up to the dawn of the new digital era.

Switchover was successfully trialled in the town of Whitehaven in Cumbria last year, but the big roll out starts with the Border TV region. Analogue TV signals will be turned off from the Selkirk group of transmitters and replaced with a stronger digital signal.

BBC 2 will be turned off first, and the rest of the analogue channels will cease to broadcast on 20 November. The rest of the Border TV region will follow in June 2009 and switchover will continue in phases across the UK until the end of 2012.

By then switchover will have cost the industry more than

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