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How will the digital switchover affect BBC Wales?

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  • Posted at 11:10am
  • 09 August 2008
  • by DoctorDigital-RT

Q Currently in Wales, BBC2 splits its programming on weekday evenings. Analogue carries the national programmes while digital carries programmes commissioned by BBC Wales. With the digital switchover due to start in Wales in 2009, will we still have a choice of viewing, or will we have to put up with Welsh-made programmes whether we want them or not?
Dick Thompson, via email

A After switchover there will indeed be a single BBC2 Wales service, which will continue to carry regional programming, although how much is as yet unknown. BB C Wales says the new amalgamated digital service will be "the very best of both network and BBC Wales television". As is the case now on the digital version of BBC2 Wales, some networked programmes will be moved or dropped to make way for regional programmes - but BBC Wales tells us that, in the main, it will be repeats that are occasionally dropped altogether.

The BBC in Northern Ireland and Scotland already combine network and regional programming in this way, so no change there.

Of course, analogue viewers who switch to satellite TV via Sky or the new Freesat service will be able to watch any BBC TV region at any time.

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