Areas affected by the Likely Street, Macwood Road and Elizabeth Beach towers include: Forster, Tuncurry, Whoota, Smiths Lake, Bungwahl, Tarbuck Bay, Elizabeth Beach, Boomerang Beach and Blueys Beach.

These moves are part of a national retune program that will free up broadcasting spectrum for new services such as mobile broadband.

For those living in apartments remember you may be using a shared antenna system.  If channels do not reappear after retuning, you should contact their property manager or body corporate.

Some viewers in Forster may receive their TV signal from the Middle Brother tower and will have retuned in September. 

The best way for viewers to find their retune day is by entering their address into the ‘Get retune info’ box on the website. 

After the channels have changed, viewers will need to retune their digital TV, set-top box or digital TV recorder to find the channels that have moved. 

Retuning should not be done on or after October 29 as the channels won’t move until then.

 Retuning is done using the remote. For most systems press the ‘menu’ button on the remote. Look for settings such as ‘channels’ or ‘auto-tuning’ and follow the prompts to retune. 

A video and three-step guide to retuning is available on the website. 

The retune is scheduled to avoid evenings and weekends. There may be some temporary disruptions to all TV services on the retune day and the following day. These outages are necessary, due to work being conducted at the transmission site.

 As the retune simply moves free-to-air TV channels to a new location on the broadcast spectrum, it is unlikely to change TV reception or coverage. 

For more information about the retune, scheduled outages, or to sign up for an SMS or email reminder, visit the retune website or call the Digital Ready Information Line on 1800 20 10 13, 8am to 10pm, seven days.