Freeview overtakes analogue television

Ofcom today publishes its Communications Market: Digital Progress Report for the first quarter of 2006 (January-March). The report shows that digital television was viewed by 72.5% (18.2 million) UK television households - up from 69.5% at the end of 2005. Take-up of digital television is growing faster than expected. Ofcom’s last Digital Progress Report forecast that an extra 1.7 million homes would take-up digital television in 2006. By the end of March almost 800,000 extra households had already done so. The number of free-to-view digital households (Freeview plus free-to-view satellite) is estimated to have grown by 9.7% from January to March to over 7.7 million. Freeview overtakes analogue television.