Television Services (Ulster)

HC Deb 20 February 1967 vol 741 cc231-2W

Mr. Ogden

asked the Postmaster-General when the arrangements and facilities regarding 405/625 line and colour television will be available in Ulster.

Mr. Edward Short

It is too early to say. The 625-line duplicates of B.B.C. 1 and independent television should start within the next three years simultaneously in London, the Midlands and the North. The broad planning assumption is that the extension would follow the spread of B.B.C. 2. B.B.C. 2 is to reach Ulster next month and colour television will be introduced on the B.B.C. 2 service everywhere in the autumn of this year.