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Digital TV switchover in Northern NSW

Households in Northern NSW will have metropolitan equivalent digital free-to-air television as the region switches off its analogue signal by the end of 2012.

Households in Northern NSW will have improved digital free-to-air television services as the region switches off its analogue signal by the end of 2012.

Areas of the North West Slopes and Plains, Northern Rivers, Richmond/Tweed and Hunter districts are set to turn off the analogue television signal by year-end.

The digital switchover, the sixth area in Australia, will provide improved free-to-air television broadcasts for more than 540,000 households across the region to digital-only services.

Communications minister, Stephen Conroy, said he thanked broadcasters for their work with local communities across the region ahead of the upcoming switchover.

"The partnership between government and broadcasters will mean that for the first time all households in Northern NSW will be able to watch the same number of digital TV channels as people in Newcastle or Sydney," Senator Conroy said in a statement on Monday.

He said broadcasters in Northern NSW were making infrastructure investments across the area, including the establishment of new digital television services.

Those households unable to receive terrestrial reception would be eligible to access the government's viewer access satellite television (VAST) service.

The satellite subsidy scheme was available to households where towers were not being upgraded to digital by broadcasters.

"The Australian government is committed to ensuring all Australians have access to digital TV and by the end of 2012 will have assisted five regions and over 1.9 million households across Australia in transitioning to a new era of digital-only TV," Senator Conroy said.

The federal government started turning off analogue television in 2010, with the switchover to digital signals progressively across Australia to be completed by the end of 2013.

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