The digital switchover is to begin in east Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, as analogue signals are turned off.
After digital switchover, children's programmes will be removed from BBC One's afternoon schedule and BBC Two's morning slots.
He said the levy on the BBC licence fee used to fund digital switchover could be extended if necessary.
The digital switchover also spells the end for BBC Ceefax, the world's first teletext service, after nearly four decades.
Ceefax will end its transmissions in October when the digital switchover is completed.
Digital television viewers in Oxfordshire and parts of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire are entering the final stage of the digital switchover.
He said within the next couple of weeks the government would be making an announcement on the "road map" towards the digital switchover.
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The analogue TV signal in Northern Ireland will be turned off permanently on Tuesday night, completing the final stage of the UK digital switchover.
Some are hopeful it will be appear on Freeview by the time the digital switchover takes place in central Scotland next May and June.
The report urged industry regulator Ofcom to ensure ITV keeps providing its current level of programmes specifically for audiences in Wales until at least digital switchover is completed in 2012.
It is convinced that the way to drive the process smoothly is by grassroot involvement and is looking to the next stage for digital switchover - the auction of the spectrum freed up by switchover.
So-called white spaces devices are currently being trialled for use in the spectrum gaps freed up by the digital TV switchover.
Jamie Reed, local MP and chair of the all-party group on digital TV switchover, praised the process for switchover, although he was less than impressed with Sky's advertising campaign.
Consumer Focus is monitoring progress in the run up to the switchover using a digital diary project.
There is no set date for the switchover from FM to digital radio although the government is keen for it to happen in 2015.
The digital native-immigrant concept describes the generational switchover where people are defined by the technological culture which they're familiar with.
Further information about the switchover - including independent advice on how to update your equipment - can be obtained from the Digital UK website.
Separately, the BBC runs a Switchover Help Scheme to help older and disabled people with everything they need to switch one TV to digital.
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