[cma-l] DAB "Switchover"

[Ian Hickling]

The important thing that we all seen to forget is that any form of broadcasting - in its widest sense - has to be delivered by one of two routes.

Either by a solid copper connection such as a telephone line for a static consumer or by RF transmission if the consumer is likely to be on the move - or simply does not have landline access.
Doing it directly by a broadcaster-owned transmitter and a personal radio/video receiver is the traditional and simplest route.

Whether it's analogue and instant or digital with a delay and lower spectral occupancy is a matter of choice.

Any other route still requires RF radiation and reception, but also the potential difficulty of going through other peoples' systems that the broadcaster doesn't control.

Internet is very attractive, yes, but it still has to be delivered by radio if you're not sitting at your PC.

 

Ian Hickling

Partner

transplan UK

 


From: phil.korbel at googlemail.com
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:39:55 +0100
To: admin at londonhuayu.co.uk
CC: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
Subject: Re: [cma-l] DAB Switchover

The internet will be the future if that's not being too pedantic....  In other words it will be the best home for community radio once, and only once, the digital dvide has been crossed by the listeners that we most need to reach - and that sure as #### aint happened yet.  So, community radio for the not poor and the not old is fine on the web ....

need I say more....

bests,

Phil


2010/9/15 London Chinese Radio <admin at londonhuayu.co.uk>

I think the "pirates" are already ahead of the wave, on the internet, which in my mind is unstoppable, and what's more since it's not owned by anyone, they are no longer outcasts.


I really haven't seen anything to convince me that internet is not the future. And I have been looking.




Peter Vautier
London Chinese Radio



On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Julian Mellor <julian at 10radio.org> wrote:


Out of interest, is it possible to be a digital pirate or are these seas 100% corporate owned?


Aharrgh 










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On 15 Sep 2010, at 01:16, Alan Coote wrote:


In the Digital Radio Switchover: what is in it for consumers? Consumer Expert Group report, this statement specifically relating to Community Radio is extremely worrying.   

"The vast majority of listeners will merely migrate to digital to listen to the national, regional and large local stations they already listen to."

This is why Community Radio MUST have a route to digital. 

What say the CMA?


Alan

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