Communications minister Mondli Gungubele has announced that South Africa will finally switch off analogue TV broadcasts on 31 December 2024.
He also announced an intermediate deadline of 31 July 2023, where all analogue TV services broadcasting on frequencies above 694 MHz must be switched off.
These new dates represent yet another delay and missed deadline after the minister’s predecessor, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, announced that 31 March 2023 was the final switch-off date.
The migration affects households that don’t receive their television signal via satellite and use a regular roof antenna or “bunny ears”.
Digital terrestrial TV promises higher quality broadcasts while consuming much less radio frequency spectrum.
The switch-off will free critical radio frequency…
