[cma-l] Community Radio & Digital Radio Switchover

[Julian Mellor]

To me Darren hits the nail on the head.

The big broadcasters will define what most people think of as radio. 
When they buy a new radio they won't be interested in DAB/FM or 
whatever, they'll just want what works.  They'll then have one 
attempt at finding their Community FM station on their DAB radio, 
they'll fail, and they'll promptly forget all about us.  Community 
radio will become akin to citizens band radio and even be ridiculed 
in the same way (rubber duck).  Digital apartheid, here we come!

Julian


At 13:32 +0100 21/7/09, CMA-L wrote:
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>
>From: "Darren Jenkinson" <darren at prescap.co.uk>
>makes me wonder whether FM in the future
>will be what Long Wave is now. With technology and "the norm" being
>more DAB focused will that make having a community information service
>on FM pointless. We have as much right as anyone to sit on the same
>spectrum as mainstream services. How accessible your service is
>shouldn't be based on your cash flow.
>

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