TV viewers have just over a year to wait until the region switches over to digital broadcasting, it has been revealed.
The date for the switch-over to digital television in the North West has been set as November 4 2009 by Digital UK, the independent body leading the process.
That is when analogue signals are turned off at the Winter Hill transmitter, near Chorley.
From then, BBC2 will cease broadcasting in analogue and the first group of freeview digital channels will become available.
Four weeks later, the remaining analogue chan-nels will be permanently switched off and replaced with additional digital services.
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