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Plus, now that there's a proposed switchover date, electrical manufacturers will get even more on the case with gadgets.
For years, the radio industry has complained of being hobbled by the lack of a digital switchover date.
The commercial radio trade body, the Radio Centre, which represents most of the big commercial radio groups, had called for a 2018 switchover date.
There is no switchover date yet proposed for when or if £20 notes – the most common note in circulation – will be changed to polymer.
Now that Stephen Carter's Digital Britain report has recommended a switchover date of 2015, they are complaining that it may not be achievable.
He also pointed out that digital listening had gone down a tad, which is awkward for a government about to announce a switchover date.
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Radio spectrum #31: The govt. can specify digital switchover dates.
This is a clever and enabling piece of legislation as it allows the Secretary of State to set a date for switchover without having to create more legislation.
"I believe we're at a time when a date [for switchover] could be set as a target, not as commitment," he told MediaGuardian.co.uk after the speech.
The government is handed the power to set a date for switchover, as it did for television, but despite industry pleas, there no date has been enshrined in law.
Vaizey said a "huge amount of progress had been made", but added: "I will not announce a decision in principle, or a date for switchover, until I am confident the radio listener is brought with us.
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