[cma-l] The BBC to fund DAB coverage up to 97%.

[Jaqui Devereux]

Dear all

Yes, Eureka 147 is still their favoured option - digital radio sets
with DAB, DAB+ and FM as standard, we will continue to push for DRM
etc to be included as well.

Jaqui

On 24 October 2011 11:04, Clive Glover <clive.glover at lineone.net> wrote:
> Ian
> At the Digital Radio meetings which I have attended (along with Jaqui and
> others) we have tried to get the Government and industry people to make
> clear in their publicity etc what exactly they mean by "digital" but they
> have always insisted on deliberately conflating all forms of digital radio
> (by satellite, by cable, by FreeView as well as DAB) as "digital". However
> when I very specifically asked the marketing people about their plans to
> create a digital "tick" campaign to show which radios in the shops were
> "digital" they first told me that these would only be DAB ones, thus
> specifically excluding those (increasingly common) which also include
> "Internet radio" (i.e. streaming). The next meeting they contradicted that
> but I suspect the plan is still to try to sell obsolete DAB sets as
> "digital" in line with the advertising campaigns to promote "digital radios"
> (which always show Pure sets, even on the BBC!).
> The RadioPlayer people have made little secret of their plans to create a RP
> app for iPhones and Android, plus probably a version for FreeView, Sky &
> FreeSat and - perhaps - a version for portable radios. Internet streaming is
> already well on its way to becoming the main "digital radio" format in
> practice even though purists will of course point out it is not a
> broadcasting technology, but  a communications technology (just like Sky TV
> in the early days and look what has happened to that!).
> One day - perhaps - someone in Whitehall will realise they are heading down
> a cul de sac  with a large brick wall at the end.....
> Clive Glover
> On 21 Oct 2011, at 18:00, Ian Hickling wrote:
>
> I didn't see the original announcement.
> So - does this mean that the BBC and presumably H M Government still pushing
> the ancient Eureka 147 format - which is effectively extinct except for the
> UK?
> Or is the term "DAB" used here meant to be a synonym for "Digital Radio"?
> I think we need to have this clarified.
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Ian Hickling
> Partner
>
> transplan UK
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: tlr at gairloch.co.uk
> To: clive.glover at lineone.net
> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:23:11 +0100
> CC: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [cma-l] The BBC will fund taking DAB up to 97% coverage
>
> Exactly Clive.
>
> I note that the no doubt very carefully worded BBC statement says "national
> DAB coverage". This almost certainly deliberately excludes rolling out the
> "local" DAB coverage which the commercial companies are also refusing to
> fund.
> So there is another subtle shift in policy here - the "switchover" (as they
> still insist on calling it down in Whitehall) will now be triggered when
> digital listening on national services reaches the appropriate limit.
>
>
> What's more, here in Scotland not having a commercial multiplex means also
> not having all the BBC National services.
>
> In areas with no commercial multiplex we get no BBC Radio Scotland on DAB
> (really!) nor BBC Radio nan Gaidheal (the national Gaelic service). This is
> because the single BBC DAB multiplex is already stretched to the max
> capacity/min quality limits to carry the England-based services.
>
> In highly populous areas, such as Edinburgh and Glasgow, the BBC gets round
> the problem by renting extra capacity for these services on commercial
> multiplexes, but of course it can't do that anywhere in the north/northwes
> of the UK where there are no commercial multiplexes.
>
> It also means we don't get the regional news opt-outs from the national
> Radio Scotland service that we currently get at peak times on FM.
>
> They could have sorted all this by using the northwest as a pilot area for
> DAB+.
> Alex
>
>
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