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Dear Friends, Colleagues and Partners,</div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td height="10"> </td></tr><tr><td><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="460"><tbody><tr><td><p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin:0px;padding:0px">

</p><p>This is a bumper DRM newsletter and you should not miss it! News from India, Brazil, South Africa, from recent events like the ABU General Assembly, information about new SW DRM broadcasts and good contracts signed in north Africa, all just below.<br>

<br>While you read and share the DRM news, do not forget to register for the November 18th webinar aimed mainly at India. And if you are interested in which transmitters have come online and what area and population they cover in India, please check the new page added to the website grouping together useful information on the DRM roll-out to-date in this country.<br>

<br>The DRM Enterprise Award aimed in 2014 at the Pacific Region already has already a selection board made up of eminent members.  More information on this is just a click away.<br>Right below you will also find out more about our Emergency Warning Submission to ITU,.</p>

<p>A<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-t/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">video<span> </span></a>on DRM across the world is also newly available on the website.<br>

<br>For all of this and much more please scroll down and do not forget to send us your comments, suggestions and feedback.<br>If you want to discuss DRM please make sure you follow us and comment on the social media sites that feature DRM:<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-i/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Facebook</a>,<a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-d/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Twitter</a>,<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-h/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">YouTube<span> </span></a>and<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-k/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Flickr</a>.</p>

<p>Ruxandra Obreja<br>Chairman, DRM Consortium</p><div><br></div></td><td width="10"> </td><td valign="top" width="100"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td height="10"> </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#f32800" height="30" valign="middle">

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Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union General Assembly, Vietnam</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin:0px;padding:0px"></p><p>Last month in Hanoi, Vietnam, the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) held their 50th General Assembly and associated meetings. DRM Technical Committee Chair, Lindsay Cornell, attended the event. <span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-u/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>

<p>During the ABU General Assembly, DRM featured in other sessions as DRM Consortium Chair Ruxandra Obreja<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-o/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">explains</a>.</p>

<p>Also attending the ABU conference as an observer this time, was Sharad Sadhu, former Director of Technology at ABU, who was interested in the session ‘What next for Radio’. <a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-b/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span> </span>Read more</a></p>

<p>The DRM message was picked up on the<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-n/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">ABU website<span> </span></a>and across other media outlets e.g.<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-p/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Asia Radio Today<span> </span></a>.</p>

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<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(243,40,0)">India – Latest news</p><p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin:0px;padding:0px"></p><p><b>DRM Webinar for India</b><br>

DRM are to hold a special India DRM Webinar (“DRM- Extra Features and Benefits – A better Choice for Listeners”) on November 18th in conjunction with ABU. You can use your computer&#39;s microphone and speakers (VoIP) or call in via phone to get the presentations and ask questions  or join in the discussion with our DRM experts.  For more details on how to register click<a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-c/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>

<p><b>DRM Consortium to demonstrate DRM Emergency Warning feature for India’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in western India</b></p><p>The DRM Consortium is to demonstrate the Emergency Warning Features of the DRM system at a special event hosted by NDMA in Gujarat on November 22nd.<br>

<br>The special session DRM – Disaster warning system is to be held on the final day of a four-day event to be held at the Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management, Gandhinagar (Gujarat).  Presentations will made by Alexander Zink, Fraunhofer IIS ,  Radu Obreja, DRM Marketing Director, and the Hon Chair of the DRM India Chapter, Yogendra Pal.<br>

<br>Those present will include senior officers from NDMA Gandhinagar  and representatives from nine coastal states.  The session will also include a technical demonstration of how emergency alerts and information can be broadcast and managed using the DRM Digital Radio system.</p>

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<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin:0px;padding:0px"></p><p>The Emergency Warning Feature is an important feature of DRM. The DRM digital radio standard is the only global standard to work in ALL frequency bands (both AM and FM), and there is growing interest from many governments of large countries where communication to the people during an Emergency is becoming an increasing priority.  Click<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-f/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">here<span> </span></a>for the full document.</p>

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</p><p>Read more on the DRM emergency warning functionality and the Consortium’s recent submission to ITU as part of the ITU official papers and discussions.  Click<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-z/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">here<span> </span></a>for the full ITU document.</p>

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<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin:0px;padding:0px"></p><p>Here is a visual update on the geographical location and potential population coverage of the AIR DRM MW transmitters in India. Click<a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-v/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">here<span> </span></a>for map.</p>

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<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin:0px;padding:0px"></p><p>Take a look at the new DRM<a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-e/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span> </span>India webpage<span> </span></a>(part of the<a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-s/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">www.drm.org<span> </span></a>site) that focuses on all the latest DRM activity in India.</p>

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<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin:0px;padding:0px"></p><p>At the beginning of November, the Brazilian president signed a decree encouraging the voluntary migration from AM to FM (band 1). This has also become part of the debate about digital radio in Brazil, as Marcelo Goedert discovered at the 22nd AGERT Congress - Southern Radio and TV Broadcast Association, held during October 2013. <span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-g/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>

<p><b>Brazil – Early reactions to the AM Migration decree</b></p><p>Daniel Slaviero, President of the Brazilian Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters (ABERT), is interviewed by Radio World International’s reporter Carlos Eduardo Behrensdorf about what led to the AM migration decision and how the moves would proceed. <a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-w/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>

<p><b>The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) Brazil Conference</b></p><p>DRM will feature in the presentations and debates at the second International Spectrum, Society and Communication Conference, which this year is to be dedicated to the topic of digital radio. The event, co-ordinated by Telemedia Laboratory Department of Computer Science at PUC-Rio (the prestigious Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) in partnership with AMARC Brazil, will be held at PUC-Rio, November 26th -28th. <span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-yd/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>

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 </td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="450"><tbody><tr><td><p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:rgb(243,40,0)">Owners of 80 stations want DAB switch halt in the UK</p>

<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin:0px;padding:0px"></p><p>A consortium of 80 commercial radio stations in the UK has released a joint statement calling for the digital radio switchover timetable to be set by consumers, not by the government. Read more from the<a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-yh/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Guardian<span> </span></a>Newspaper and<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-yk/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Radio Today</a>.</p>

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</p><p>In order to address some of the concerns of the stations represented by those above, in August 2013, the UK regulating body, Ofcom released a report by their employee Mr Rashid Mustapha on the test of a DAB transmitter for local coverage.  It is called “small scale DAB” and it is based on a test in Brighton using lower-cost components.<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-yu/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>

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</p><p>The DRM Consortium fully supports a switch off date for the UK and other countries like India or Brazil. It is of the opinion that the added spectrum and power efficiencies offered by the existing, trusted and already ITU recommended DRM+ solution, could be the answer for the smaller stations’ needs. Click<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-jl/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">here<span> </span></a>to read submission.</p>

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<p style="font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin:0px;padding:0px"></p><p><b>KBS WRN Broadcast</b></p><p>On October 27th KBS, the largest public broadcaster in South Korea,  began a one-hour daily transmission in German using WRN transmitters based in Bulgaria. <span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-jr/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>

<p><b>Télédiffusion d’Algérie to renew their Longwave station in Tipaza</b></p><p>Télédiffusion d’Algérie (TDA), the national broadcaster of Algeria, are to replace their 1.5 MW longwave transmission system located close to the city of Tipaza . <span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-jy/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>

<p><b>Guam - More KTWR DRM tests</b></p><p>KTWR have been conducting further DRM tests with their new TX7 (a Thomson TSW-2250D).  The tests ran from 5th - 6th November 1500-1530 UTC   (15445 KHz azi 285) and from 7th – 8th November  1500-1530 UTC   (13760 KHz azi 285). They are particularly interested in reports from India. <span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-jj/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>

<p><b>Big Florida Shortwave Station to Reopen</b></p><p>Shortwave station WYFR in Okeechobee, Florida, which ceased transmissions on June 30, 2013, is to resume broadcasting in December as a result of an agreement between Family Stations, Inc., and Radio Miami International, Inc. <span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-jt/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Read more</a></p>

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<br>At the beginning of November Mr R. Venkateswarlu  took charge as the new director general of All India Radio (AIR), one of the world&#39;s largest broadcasting stations. According to a statement from AIR, R.Venkateswarlu has an experience of 35 years in the Indian Information Service and has served AIR, Doordarshan and Prasar Bharti.</p>

<p><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-ji/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Director General of All India Radio, Leela Dhar Mandloi retires after thirty-seven years</a>.</p>

<p><b>Frontier Silicon’s Patrick Hannon elected President of WorldDMB</b><br><br>The DRM Consortium would like to congratulate DRM Executive Board member, Patrick Hannon, VP of Corporate Development at Frontier Silicon (a Toumaz Group company),  for his recent election to the position of president of World DMB.</p>

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•<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-jh/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Africa: Radio Remains Top Choice for News Even As Traditional Media Loses Ground</a><br>

•<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-jk/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Using the SiDRADIO to receive DRM30+</a><br>•<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-ju/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">New studies show big returns from radio advertising</a><br>

•<a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-tl/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Cool DRM Thesis</a> <br>•<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-tr/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">DRMNA flag a new Japanese DRM website</a></p>

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- Visit the DRM website is for regular news about DRM at: <a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-tj/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">www.drm.org</a><br>
- DRM has a special monthly noticeboard for India <br>
- DRM standard is now fully endorsed by the<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-tt/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">ITU<span> </span></a>and<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-ti/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">ETSI</a><br>

- Over 30 broadcasters have regular DRM broadcasts<br>- DRM is used to transmit over 600 hours of programming per week<br>- for the latest information on DRM transmissions, Check out the DRM<a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-td/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span> </span>Broadcast schedule</a>. <br>

- Please let us know if you hear DRM anywhere else!<br>- <span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-th/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Emergency Warning<span> </span></a>- Part of DRM standard as recommended by ITU and ETSI - DRM has all required tools built-in for a quick and complete mass-notification in case of emergencies<br>

- The new<span> </span><a href="http://newsletters.lavishcreative.com/t/r-l-ndihidt-juirddkrku-tk/" style="color:rgb(0,103,174);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">DRM India webpage<span> </span></a>is now available</p>

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