TV- switch by June 5

06 JANUARY, 2012

TV - Switch by June 5 or tune out to the rest of Australia

Mercury 5th January 2012

LITHGOW City Council is advising residents across the local government area to prepare themselves for the switch over in June to digital only television and has warned that that time is running out.

Residents in Hartley, Capertee, Glen Davis and the outlying areas of Portlandcurrently receive analogue only transmission from self-help retransmission towers managed by Lithgow City Council.

From June 5 residents in the areas who currently re-ceive a signal from one of council’s self help towers will in most cases need to switch to a free satellite service known as Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST), or lose access to their free-to-air TV signal.

VAST includes the full suite of 16 free-to-air digital TV services.

Access to VAST for eligible households in these locations will be available from next week (January 10) and a subsidy of $400 will be provided by the Commonwealth Government per household toward the installation of the required satellite dish and other equipment for one television per household.

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The federal Government web site is click here..  This seems to have most of what we need to know.