Christmas is coming early for thousands of people in the state of Jalisco, as the Mexican government continues its handout of digital television sets in preparation for the analog shutdown next year.
Some 477,000 sets will be given away to mostly economically challenged families in Jalisco, part of 14 million to be distributed nationally. The beneficiaries are all incorporated in programs administered by Sedesol, Mexico’s federal social welfare agency.
The deadline for the transition from the analog to the digital system in Mexico is set for December 31, 2015. The switchover date in Jalisco has yet to be decided but is expected to be early next year.
As yet the only places to have carried out the changeover are Tijuana and parts of the state of Nuevo Leon.
A national program to collect worthless analog TVs will begin in January 2016.
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