The arbitrarily short timescales imposed on us before switchovers have meant we have inevitably lost members and subscription income.
Fear of delay led companies to rush through around 140 deals in the weeks before the switchover in June.
Now, he gets 25 channels and a crystal clear picture, compared with the 6 channels and snowy reception he had before the switchover.
The trust eventually withdrew paper forms for discharge, although provided warnings and further offers of training and assistance before the switchover.
In Berlin, which has 1.8 million TV households, 160,000 homes had over-the-air reception before the switchover, while 90,000 homes used over-the-air broadcast for second or third sets.
Viewing figures for children's programmes on BBC One fell to below 1,000 on occasions before the switchover, while figures on digital have steadily increased since CBBC and CBeebies were introduced in 2002.
Both BBC and commercial representatives agreed that the DAB signal had to be strengthened and extended across the country before digital radio switchover could become even a distant possibility.
Within months of joining Channel 4, Duncan had done a sharp U-turn on his predecessor Thompson's plan for a merger with Channel Five and identified a looming £100m-a-year funding gap that he argued would prevent the broadcaster fulfilling its public service remit before the digital switchover in 2012.
For the funding of any intervention, Ofcom looks primarily to a slice of the licence fee, even though it has published this week a prediction that the rising scale of losses on regional news could drive ITV to dump that main PSB obligation a year or more before the digital switchover monies become available.
The basic design was to simulate a member of the morning subgroup A finding food shortly before the midday switchover, in order to investigate whether this influenced the subsequent foraging behaviour of subgroup B members.
