[cma-l] DAB Switchover

[Alan Coote]

An excellent blog by Grant. 

As I have said before on this forum and others, after so many years of
flocking this Betamax of a radio systems, please will someone with enough
courage kill it off.

It's ridiculous that this  country, a leader in broadcasting and technology,
can't swallow it's pride and commit to the evidently technically superior
DRM & DRM+.

With such a ubiquitous platform there will not be a broadcaster in the
country without a route to digital and therefore, broadcasters, manufactures
and consumers will all benefit.

Alan

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Richard Hilton
Sent: 13 September 2010 5:44 PM
To: CMA-L
Subject: [cma-l] DAB Switchover

At times Paul Goddard can come across like a lone Don Quixote figure tilting
at the DAB windmill (and I mean that in the nicest way possible!).  The DAB
lobby tend not to engage with him, perhaps hoping that by ignoring him
everyone else will as well. However, it is worth noting that his writing is
nearly always backed up with detailed technical analysis.

His latest blog, guaranteed to irritate the DAB lobby, starts as follows:-

'I am often asked why I believe that digital radio switchover will never
happen in the UK. My answer is always this - the available statistics and
data on consumer take-up of DAB radio fail to demonstrate that it will grow
sufficiently to become the mass medium for radio broadcasting. I can see
nothing in more than a decade of figures to offer an inkling that DAB radio
will ever become anything more than a minority interest, compared to FM/AM'

I'll leave you to read the rest at :-

http://grantgoddardradioblog.blogspot.com/

Regards


Richard




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