I've been to Europe many times over the past 6 years, including about five weeks ago, and can't recall any such backlash. I also remember doomsayers of the DTV conversion/analog sunset here in the US were claiming there would be a HUGE backlash of angry TV consumers who would rebel by not watching TV anymore, with estimated losses in the 20 million viewer range. I can tell you first hand, the rebellion and backlash never happened with TV either.
This from Dec 2013, all you got to do is google it: DAB is in trouble over there and that has been common knowledge for some time. Digital radio is not working anywhere, the only digital radio format we have here that is working is Sirius-XM and with that it is the content not the fact that it is digital that sold it.
Analogue radio has been given a stay of execution after ministers admitted too few listeners were switching to digital.
Both FM and AM radio were due to be turned off in 2015, though the Government had already considered a delay as digital uptake was so slow.
But now ministers have decided to postpone the plan indefinitely after discovering that barely a third of radio is received from digital stations.
Delays: Ministers will not set a date to switch of FM services until more people start using digital radios
Delays: Ministers will not set a date to switch of FM services until more people start using digital radios
Communications minister Ed Vaizey said more needed to be done to persuade listeners to switch.
Mr Vaizey said: ‘I regard my role as a supporter and enabler of digital radio but . . . I completely respect the people’s passion for radio and not being made to do something they don’t want to do.
‘I also have a huge amount of respect for people who run independent commercial stations. They’re not flying off to the Caribbean for Christmas; these are tough organizations to run and they don’t make a huge amount of money.’
more at:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...digital-radio-switchover-people-given-FM.html
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