According to New Zealand’s Broadcasting Minister, Craig Foss, not only will regional television stations not suffer from the switch from analogue to digital, but nine regional stations in the country have already made the transition with very little problems.
The final region in New Zealand, North Island, would be switching to digital on December 1st after which the country will have made the transition entirely. While certain agencies have noted that smaller TV stations may not survive the move, Foss has confirmed that USD 70,000 was provided to local stations to change equipment that support analogue to equipment that will allow for digital broadcasting.
In the meantime, the citizens of the country have been active getting their old television sets recycled as part of an initiative called the TV TakeBack programme. So far in upper North Island alone, a total of 12,757 TVs have been collected and a total of 155,640 TVs have been collected together with the Lower North Island.
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