DAB Announcement...
I know that a blog usually is to invite readers to partake in the life of the writer but it also allows for me to relay information that I feel is not getting the coverage elsewhere and as I am a very big fan of radio broadcasting I think the following worth mentioning.
Ofcom the regulatory body for broadcasting in the UK is promising the release of more frequency spectrum for the use of DAB stations.
The new licence will be advertised in November, according to a timetable issued by the media regulator, Ofcom, yesterday.
Yesterday's announcement means that listeners could be tuning in to up to 10 new national digital radio stations by the beginning of 2008.
The spectrum which will be used for the second national radio multiplex licence will be vacated by the end of 2007, thus enabling the service to launch any time from the beginning of 2008 according to Ofcom.
Currently there are different levels of digital radio choice in different regions of the UK. Around 14% of the UK population, mainly in rural areas, has no access to DAB/digital radio services. Urbanites, on the other hand, can typically tune in to around 30 stations.
The new local digital multiplexes will allow for up to 74 existing local FM and AM analogue services, all BBC local and regional stations and other services to move to DAB.
There has been talk of legal action to be taken against Ofcom and its plans from existing owners of stations and transmitters who feel that this is unfair competition and goes against agreements drawn up between them and the regulator etc...when DAB was launched but as said in an earlier blog entry on this subject DAB is not necessarily all that it said to be and some countries have fallen out of love with DAB deciding to wait for an alternative system and some countries have gone with other systems and some have decided to use different frequencies so if you took your DAB radio with you, it probably will not work in other European countries and I suspect places such as Australia and Canada.
There is an extremely well written and informed article available at the following link(its very clear for those not of a technical mind)so it worked for me ;-)
DAB Digital Radio - THE FUTURE OF RADIO?
Update:October 26th As reported on the Media Guardian Website The growth in digital radio ownership has stalled after more than two years of continuous growth.
Just under one in six people, or 15.3%, owned a digital radio in the third quarter of 2006, according to figures published by Rajar today.
A similar number owned a set in the second quarter of the year, the first time that ownership has plateaued since measurement began in 2004.
The number of people listening to the radio via their digital TV sets also fell, down to 38.7% from a high of 38.9% in the second quarter of 2006. However, listening via digital TV is up 10% year on year.
The ownership of digital radios is expected to pick up in the run-up to Christmas, which is traditionally the medium's biggest growth period.
Ofcom the regulatory body for broadcasting in the UK is promising the release of more frequency spectrum for the use of DAB stations.
The new licence will be advertised in November, according to a timetable issued by the media regulator, Ofcom, yesterday.
Yesterday's announcement means that listeners could be tuning in to up to 10 new national digital radio stations by the beginning of 2008.
The spectrum which will be used for the second national radio multiplex licence will be vacated by the end of 2007, thus enabling the service to launch any time from the beginning of 2008 according to Ofcom.
Currently there are different levels of digital radio choice in different regions of the UK. Around 14% of the UK population, mainly in rural areas, has no access to DAB/digital radio services. Urbanites, on the other hand, can typically tune in to around 30 stations.
The new local digital multiplexes will allow for up to 74 existing local FM and AM analogue services, all BBC local and regional stations and other services to move to DAB.
There has been talk of legal action to be taken against Ofcom and its plans from existing owners of stations and transmitters who feel that this is unfair competition and goes against agreements drawn up between them and the regulator etc...when DAB was launched but as said in an earlier blog entry on this subject DAB is not necessarily all that it said to be and some countries have fallen out of love with DAB deciding to wait for an alternative system and some countries have gone with other systems and some have decided to use different frequencies so if you took your DAB radio with you, it probably will not work in other European countries and I suspect places such as Australia and Canada.
There is an extremely well written and informed article available at the following link(its very clear for those not of a technical mind)so it worked for me ;-)
DAB Digital Radio - THE FUTURE OF RADIO?
Update:October 26th As reported on the Media Guardian Website The growth in digital radio ownership has stalled after more than two years of continuous growth.
Just under one in six people, or 15.3%, owned a digital radio in the third quarter of 2006, according to figures published by Rajar today.
A similar number owned a set in the second quarter of the year, the first time that ownership has plateaued since measurement began in 2004.
The number of people listening to the radio via their digital TV sets also fell, down to 38.7% from a high of 38.9% in the second quarter of 2006. However, listening via digital TV is up 10% year on year.
The ownership of digital radios is expected to pick up in the run-up to Christmas, which is traditionally the medium's biggest growth period.
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 12:25 am
1 Comments:
Thanks for the info. It's good news for people who currently have zero or limited coverage. I wish the signals were stronger for local/regional stations, I've found the national BBC stations to broadcast without any problems.
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