One key problem is that growing digital take-up has significantly hit S4C's audience share.
Commercial radio executives have criticised BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 for failing to fulfill their public service remit – and suggested the two stations be switched to digital-only in a bid to boost digital take-up.
Paul Keenan, chief executive of Kiss and Magic parent Bauer Radio, said the two BBC stations could be used as a key driver in encouraging digital take-up by removing them from analogue and making them digital-only, including digital audio broadcasting (DAB).
That's not to mention the BBC's newly completed complement of six digital TV and five digital radio stations - a key driver of digital take-up - plus the contribution to corporation coffers from BBC Worldwide, which generated revenues of £700m in the past year.
Although approximately 96% of the population had access to at least one digital service, take up was initially sluggish, with only 28% of Australia's 7.8 million households having adopted free-to-air digital television by March 2007.
Digital broadcasts take up less of the airwaves, allowing more channels to be broadcast.
can take more than 130 megabytes of computer disk space; TIFF files from eight-megapixel digital cameras take up less than 30 megabytes.
If they succeed, the existing stations on the FM and AM bands will eventually be replaced with digital ones, which take up less space on the airwaves than the existing, analogue stations.
IBM But digital mammograms files take up a tremendous amount of storage space that hospitals don't have.
Just like CDs, cassette tapes, and 8 tracks before them, digital downloads that take up valuable space on your gadgetry will go out of style.
Digital books don't take up space on bookshelves, or gather dust there.
