In another setback to big radio's hope of spreading the scourge of useless digital radio, Sweden has decided to not shut of analog FM. Public opinion there has "mauled" the idea as they did in Great Britain which has indefinitely scrapped the idea. What does this have to do with HD radio? Plenty, digital radio HD, DAB etc. despite all the baloney that is posted here and elsewhere is not doing well anywhere in the world.
From Digital Radio FM Europe:
A severe setback for proposal to switch-off FM in Sweden
"The renowned Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) has promptly rejected DAB digital radio in response to the proposed roadmap for a transition to DAB+.
The "Digital Radio Coordinator" commissioned by the former center-right government presented her proposal Dec 1. The plan consists of a mutual launch, extension of the licenses for commercial radio actors to broadcast analogue and a conditional shutdown of FM transmissions 2016-2024.
However, the proposal has been mauled by the public opinion in the press and social media and widely criticized by experts outside the DAB sphere of interest. "
"The Academy has now joined this massive opposition to DAB "It's expensive and unnecessary to invest in on-air digital radio". In a statement, also published in Sweden's no. 1 newspaper Dagens Nyheter, IVA says that consumer needs are better catered to by today´s technologies. The days are gone when producers could decide how and information should be distributed and consumed."
"IVA recommends that radio can develop on-line, also in use with DVB-T2, and that today's FM network and receivers should be retained. Thus there will be no need for an expensive and bad DAB+ solution."
Strooby are you listening?
more refreshing truth at:
http://digitalradioinsider.blogspot.com/2014/12/royal-academy-rejects-dab-radio.html
From Digital Radio FM Europe:
A severe setback for proposal to switch-off FM in Sweden
"The renowned Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) has promptly rejected DAB digital radio in response to the proposed roadmap for a transition to DAB+.
The "Digital Radio Coordinator" commissioned by the former center-right government presented her proposal Dec 1. The plan consists of a mutual launch, extension of the licenses for commercial radio actors to broadcast analogue and a conditional shutdown of FM transmissions 2016-2024.
However, the proposal has been mauled by the public opinion in the press and social media and widely criticized by experts outside the DAB sphere of interest. "
"The Academy has now joined this massive opposition to DAB "It's expensive and unnecessary to invest in on-air digital radio". In a statement, also published in Sweden's no. 1 newspaper Dagens Nyheter, IVA says that consumer needs are better catered to by today´s technologies. The days are gone when producers could decide how and information should be distributed and consumed."
"IVA recommends that radio can develop on-line, also in use with DVB-T2, and that today's FM network and receivers should be retained. Thus there will be no need for an expensive and bad DAB+ solution."
Strooby are you listening?
more refreshing truth at:
http://digitalradioinsider.blogspot.com/2014/12/royal-academy-rejects-dab-radio.html