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British Government Pushes Digital TV.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2002
By Toby Walne, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 4--Couch potatoes were hit hard when the plug was pulled on crisis-hit ITV Digital at the beginning of May.
Though its subscribers can now pick up a basic pack of free channels through their set-top boxes, they no longer enjoy the wide choice of viewing they had before.
But from next month, the BBC, in partnership with broadcasting infrastructure provider Crown Castle, will deliver 27 channels free to anyone with a set-top box or a digital television. It is part of a Government drive to have everyone watching digital TV by 2006.
As well as the five terrestrial channels the package will include BBC 4, BBC News 24 and ITV 2, plus channels offering news,...
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