Useful Links

Government departments, sponsored bodies and organisations:

• Department for Culture, Media and Sport - www.dcms.gov.uk
• Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)
  (Formally BERR) - www.bis.gov.uk
• Digital UK - www.digitaluk.co.uk
• Digital Logo Scheme - www.digitallogo.co.uk
• Office of Communications (Ofcom) - www.ofcom.org.uk

Legislation

• Broadcasting Act 1990
• Broadcasting Act 1996
• Communications Act 2003
• Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Act
  

Broadcasters:

• BBC - www.bbc.co.uk
• Channel 4 - www.channel4.com
• FIVE - www.five.tv
• ITV - www.itv.com
• S4C - www.s4c.co.uk
• Teletext www.teletext.com

Digital broadcasters/companies:

• BSkyB - www.sky.com
• Freesat from Sky - www.freesatfromsky.co.uk
• Freeview - www.freeview.co.uk
• Smallworld (formerly WightCable North) - www.smallworldmedia.com
• Tiscali TV www.tiscali.co.uk
• Top Up TV - www.topuptv.com
• Virgin Media (formerly NTL/Telewest) http://allyours.virginmedia.com
• WightCable IOW - www.wightcable.com

Further information about digital products and services is available from manufacturers, retailers and broadcasters. Please access their sites directly for more information.

Industry:

• Registered Digital Installer - the licensing body - www.rdi-lb.tv
• Confederation of Aerial Industries (CAI) - www.cai.org.uk
• Digital Television Group - www.dtg.org.uk
• Independent Digital Standards Commission (IDSC) - www.idsc.uk.com
• Intellect (manufacturers' group) - www.intellectuk.org

Consumer groups/accessibility:

• Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE) - www.acre.org.uk
• Age Concern - www.ageconcern.org.uk
• Consumer Direct - www.consumerdirect.gov.uk
• Consumer Focus - www.consumerfocus.org.uk
• Deaf Broadcasting Council (DBC) - www.deafcouncil.org.uk
• Help the Aged - www.helptheaged.org.uk
• Ricability (Consumer test reports on digital TV products)- www.ricability-digitaltv.org.uk
• Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) - www.rnib.org.uk
• Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID) - www.rnid.org.uk
• Sense - www.sense.org.uk
• Switchover Help Scheme - www.helpscheme.co.uk
• Voice of the Listener and Viewer (VLV) - www.vlv.org.uk
• Which? (the Consumers' Association) - www.which.co.uk
• W4B (Wireless for the Bedridden) - www.w4b.org.uk

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