Mr Emeka Mba, the Director General of the Commission made this known during interactive session with newsmen in Abuja.
Lack of finance he said was the major constraint to the realisation of the plan.
Mba said the commission would have to look for alternative source of fund to be able to meet up.
"In the next 18 months, I hope the commission will be able to switch over from analogue to digital."
"By December 2016, we should be where we want to be, with the pace the commission is going," he said.
He, however, expressed confidence that digitisation of the nation's broadcasting industry would bring about tremendous development to the nation.
Mba said 12 community radio broadcast stations had been approved, two in each of the six geo-political zones of the country.
In Jos 2014, The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the commission began a pilot digital switch over project.
"All the television stations we have today are analogue," the DG said. "Imagine one NTA channel that we are watching in Abuja uses eight mega bytes."
"But with digital broadcast, you can actually switch up to twenty channels into that one space that NTA is occupying today. NAN
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