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TVS to switch off analogue in March

Community station Television Sydney will switch off its analogue next March.

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Community station Television Sydney will switch off its analogue signal on Thursday, 1st March.

The TVS transmission signal, which comes from Gore Hill, will then be broadcasting only on Digital 44.

TVS viewers will need a Digital Television, or a Digital Set Top Box to use with an analogue television.

Digital frequency for manual tuning is 536.625MH.

For more information visit www.digitalready.gov.au or TVS

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  1. @SydneyCityTV: I believe the reason given at the time for 31 Brisbane switching off analogue earlier this year, was due to flood-related expenses from January, such as replacing large amounts of equipment in their West End studios.

    I’d say TVS has seen that the cost factor of keeping both analogue and digital transmissions for two more years, is very risky, esp. as people have mentioned: most of Sydney is digital now.

  2. Although the digital pics are great….I find the analogue sound….clearer and louder…..when i go there… it says ‘stereo’….the digital channels sounds somewhat muffled in comparison and I have to have them up at a higher level…and yes…I have tried all the different settings…

  3. When they kill Channel 31 in Melbourne that means it’ll be an iffy service with digital. Some days it works and some it doesn’t. Whereas the analogue works whenever they are transmitting. I’ll admit it’s ghosting but there is sound and picture. Especially when the digital is black. I do love digital when it’s working. Too bad the signal strength is crap as well as easily interfered with during bad weather. And yet the analogue still works.

  5. @Daran I agree it would be great if these channel’s could go statewide, I have enjoyed various programs on TVS for a few years now a nice accidently find.

  6. Not the first CTV station to shut down on analog, 31 Digital in Brisbane closed its analog service earlier this year. I’ll have to remember to put this date in the diary.

  7. Makes sense for them to save the cost of an analogue transmission in 2012. Anyone who cares about TV in Sydney by now must have digital.

    Not to mention, it’s only 9 months earlier than the complete analogue switch off.

  8. That’s quite sudden, I wonder why they didn’t keep in line with the other channels and switch it off in 2013?

    As I’ve got fuzzy digital reception in my room, I will no longer be able to watch the Schlocky Horror Picture Show 🙁

  10. David,is there any news on what use this spectrum will be used for once TVS vacate the analogue signal,I recall the government saying a few years back it would be given for other media uses?

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