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BBC to hand back almost £300m of digital switchover cash
The BBC will return nearly half the £600m fund it was given to help the elderly and disabled convert from analogue to digital TV after the switch proved more straightforward than many people had feared.
One of last big hurdles on the way to a digital-only future was cleared on Wednesday when analogue BBC1, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 were turned off across the London region.
Around nine in 10 households have now completed the switchover process which began in Whitehaven in Cumbria on 17 October 2007.
A total of £603m was allocated out of licence fee revenues to help the over-75s, the blind and partially sighted and with other serious disabilities get digital TV.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/19/bbc-digital-switchover-funds
