--- title: The Days Of Broadcast Digital TV Could Be Numbered description: The UK government has set 2032 as a target date for switching off Freeview digital terrestrial TV broadcasting, moving television delivery entirely to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-days-of-broadcast-digital-tv-could-be-numbered-hqmdpwn7d twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Days Of Broadcast Digital TV Could Be Numbered | daily.dev og:description: The UK government has set 2032 as a target date for switching off Freeview digital terrestrial TV broadcasting, moving television delivery entirely to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-days-of-broadcast-digital-tv-could-be-numbered-hqmdpwn7d og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hQMdpWN7D.png og:image:alt: The Days Of Broadcast Digital TV Could Be Numbered og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Days Of Broadcast Digital TV Could Be Numbered **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 14 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The UK government has set 2032 as a target date for switching off Freeview digital terrestrial TV broadcasting, moving television delivery entirely to internet-based streaming with an initial set-top-box requirement. This mirrors a broader European decline in over-the-air broadcast media, including the BBC's earlier shutdown of long wave and AM transmissions. Unlike past analog shutoffs, this move retires the very digital multiplex system (DVB-T/ATSC) that replaced analog TV roughly fifteen years ago, despite it still being widely used. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### When is the UK planning to switch off digital terrestrial TV broadcasting? The UK government has set a target date of 2032 to switch off DVB-T digital terrestrial television broadcasting. The service will be replaced by an online streaming alternative that will initially require a set-top box for viewers without existing broadband or smart TV setups, following the earlier analog TV switch-off roughly fifteen years prior. _anyone tracking broadcast tech shifts like this can follow the story as it develops on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Still no end in sight to South Africa’s digital migration saga](https://daily.dev/posts/still-no-end-in-sight-to-south-africa-s-digital-migration-saga-w9znjrzdn) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Television at 50 \| A timeline of events that shaped an industry](https://daily.dev/posts/television-at-50-a-timeline-of-events-that-shaped-an-industry-afzrm0icf) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [UK weighs forcing social media platforms to surface trusted news](https://daily.dev/posts/uk-weighs-forcing-social-media-platforms-to-surface-trusted-news-exuwvqfyz) · The Next Web · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI](https://daily.dev/posts/bbc-tapped-to-stop-britain-being-baffled-by-ai-4eacp1ktr) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Television at 50 \| How the internet broke the broadcast schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/television-at-50-how-the-internet-broke-the-broadcast-schedule-wruswf9hn) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#tech-news](https://daily.dev/tags/tech-news) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-days-of-broadcast-digital-tv-could-be-numbered-hqmdpwn7d) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Days Of Broadcast Digital TV Could Be Numbered","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-days-of-broadcast-digital-tv-could-be-numbered-hqmdpwn7d","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-days-of-broadcast-digital-tv-could-be-numbered-hqmdpwn7d"},"datePublished":"2026-08-25T08:25:17.251Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T07:19:44.481Z","description":"The UK government has set 2032 as a target date for switching off Freeview digital terrestrial TV broadcasting, moving television delivery entirely to...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/9fa9d6a3aa182f6734108ceffbe3275d?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/9fa9d6a3aa182f6734108ceffbe3275d?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hackaday","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hackaday","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--JhDfhy70--/f_auto,q_auto/v1767541814/logos/hackaday","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-days-of-broadcast-digital-tv-could-be-numbered-hqmdpwn7d","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":14},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"tech-news","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hackaday","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The Days Of Broadcast Digital TV Could Be Numbered"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-days-of-broadcast-digital-tv-could-be-numbered-hqmdpwn7d#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"When is the UK planning to switch off digital terrestrial TV broadcasting?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"The UK government has set a target date of 2032 to switch off DVB-T digital terrestrial television broadcasting. 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