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Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell is expected to announce the formal go-ahead for the switch-over from analogue to digital television.
In a speech to broadcasters, she will say viewers on the English-Scottish borders will be the first to have their existing TV signals switched off.

This will happen in three years' time, and the rest of the UK will follow, region by region, ending in 2012.

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The switchover will enable the analogue spectrum to be sold off for other uses, as well as encouraging the public to take advantage of multi-channel television.

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Switching off the existing analogue signal means every TV and video recorder, in every room, must be connected to a digital receiver if it is to work.

Many people may also have to pay for a new aerial.

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On Wednesday evening in Cambridge, Ms Jowell is expected to announce the timetable for switchover, starting in the ITV Border region in 2008.

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