[cma-l] Norway to switch off FM in 2017
Ian Hickling
transplanfm at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 22 09:10:03 BST 2015
I have to confess that the use of the phraseology ".....to switch off FM" typifies to me the level of comprehension of the situation in the Media.
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 14:23:22 +0100
From: ravensound at pilgrimsound.co.uk
To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Norway to switch off FM in 2017
I recall quite a few years ago, when
one of my daughters was living in Glasgow, that the border areas
were a radio desert - no FM and the BBC had engineered the long
wave to have a mush zone due to a (mistaken in my opinion) need to
synchronise the various transmitters. Now, although radio is
carried on every platform available, it still doesn't get
everywhere! Interestingly, the Nordic reference to keeping band 3
for tv also makes economic sense when you are using tv channels
for digital radio services. Having DAB on band 3 doesn't, which
was presumably why L band was proposed. The best place for DAB if
you must have it is actually band 2.
Regards, Tony Bailey
On 20/04/15 13:34, Two Lochs Radio wrote:
It's also worth noting that the percentage of population
figures papers over the issue of huge geographical areas
without adequeate coverage. Many of these area, especially
here in the north, have very tiny populations that have no
great impact on the percentage popualtion totals, but carry
roads connecting centres of population. If I drive from my
home to the nearest large town, I lose DAB coverage within the
first mile of the 70-mile trip and it isn't restored until a
large proportion of he journey has elapsed. With so much focus
being put currently on how many new cars are being fitted with
DAB this would become a significant issue in the event of a
BBC FM switch off.
There's also no sign of a plan to provide proper FM equivalence
for most of rural Scotland, even where DAB multiplexes have been
established, and yet they seem to be counting in the populations
served' anywhere that has a BBC multiplex.
Because of the weak-willed insistence on sticking with DAB
rather than moving to DAB+ for geographically isolated
roll-outs, the two Scottish national network services are not
available on DAB outside the largest cities (in the urban areas
the BBC rents space on commercial multiplexes to carry them).
And as for the regional optouts, forget them! The DAB
multiplexes do however carry the Asian Network and BBC World
Service...
So presumably for very large geographic areas the BBC will
continue to have to maintain expensive FM services anyway to
carry those networks for the time being. Or maybe there is a
plan, and we just haven't been told - we can hope.
Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Coote
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Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Norway to switch off FM in 2017
James,
The talk of percentages is misleading and I think masks a
significant problem.
If 91% of the population will be able to receive a
commercial DAB station in the UK by the end of the year, it
means 5.4 million people can’t. Which by the way is more
than the 5 million total population of Norway.
I wouldn’t like to be on the Digital Switch Over Help
Desk when that lot start complaining!
Kind Regards
Alan
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