But Davie left his audience in no doubt about the scale of the task ahead of radio was to follow television, which is due to complete digital switchover by 2012.
It explains that since the digital switchover (completed in 2012), a black and white licence has only been valid if you connect a black and white TV to a digital box that can't record.
The process was completed, achieving digital switchover on 5 October 2010, but geographically isolated areas were left with analog broadcasts.
The chances of that money ever being returned for the free decision of the BBC, after switchover is complete, are slim.
Children's programmes are to be entirely expunged from the BBC1 and BBC2 schedules as soon as digital switchover is complete – to roars of knee-jerk disapproval from many.
Richards agrees that costs will outweigh benefits for "most" Channel 3 licensees (ITV in England and Wales, STV in Scotland and UTV in Northern Ireland) "well before switchover is complete and in some cases imminently".
But with digital switchover now complete and the specialist children's services CBBC and CBeebies as widely available as the two main networks, the BBC argues that it is simply reacting to young audiences who are used to having their own dedicated channels.
"Now that switchover is complete, Ofcom is looking forward to delivering the 4G auction as the next step in delivering new higher speed mobile broadband services," said Ofcom CEO Ed Richards in a (self-congratulatory) statement.
A second North American factory, in Mexico, is operating at 50% of capacity, but Nissan is just now retooling it to export the Sentra sedan to the U.S. When the switchover is complete, around 2000, Nissan should be able to supply the U.S. with another 150,000 units of whatever is hot.
After the digital switchover is completed in 2012 Sky and ESPN will have a 90% reach.
