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there's also no particular historic significance to this event in the way that the analogue switch off had been - and even back then, unless you lived in London, Scotland/Wales or particularly in NI then there was no ceremony to it, no announcement or testcard or anything else. Maybe Arqiva were generous enough to shutdown once the current programme had ended, but not necessarily.

After the regions went HD then you'd have to try quite hard to seek out the SD version anyway, which is probably why the BBC claimed they had an even lower response to the warning messages than they had expected.

Maybe they should do something if Freeview ever goes exclusively to DVB-T2, as IIRC the UK was the first in the world to launch DVB-T?