[cma-l] [comradio-l] James Cridland's blog: TechCon - a look back

[Martin Steers]

I was just about to email this around.. its a fantastic idea and something
I have been talking about for a while.. as other countries have a different
approach to dab coverage..

Surely using a similar method to local TV (isnt it
graphical inter-levered space?) or a dedicated channel, we could have local
DAB coverage for community stations (either as a dual transmission or DAB
only stations), however this would depend on the technical / carriage
implications, eg we would ideally like to deal with our own transmission
and carriage and not have to be forced to use another provider..

Question for Jaqui / Bill, is the sort of thing we can get on the agenda as
part of the communications bill stuff next year?

Martin

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 4:53 PM, CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk> wrote:

> Excerpt:
>
> Next, “DAB in a box” – not a coffin, but a few different low-cost
> boxes, shown off by Mathias Coinchon and Stanislas Roehrich from the
> EBU. The issue with DAB is lots of broadcasters think it’s really
> expensive to broadcast: but it needn’t be. Using open software from
> the CRC in Canada and some low-cost transmission kit, a DAB multiplex
> was magically set up in front of us – including one channel called
> “James’s cat purr”, a channel that just had the (royalty-free) sound
> of a purring cat. A very impressive demonstration, and one that should
> perhaps give Ofcom pause for thought: what would happen if two DAB
> frequencies were simply given to community radio services up and down
> the country, to run low-power DAB multiplexes themselves? What amazing
> additional choice we’d have then!
>
> Source: http://james.cridland.net/blog/
>
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