Apr 11 2014
Ofcom’s Digital Radio Technical Code and accompanying Guidance Note set out the high level requirements with which radio multiplex licensees are required to comply as a condition of their multiplex licences. The documents are in place to ensure that licensed services achieve at least a minimum standard of technical quality, do not cause interference to […]
Jul 2 2012
Plans to extend local digital radio coverage have moved a step closer as Government, the BBC and commercial operators signed a joint agreement, establishing the framework for up to £21 million of new investment in radio infrastructure to fund the build-out of local DAB to FM equivalences over the next 5 years. The agreement includes […]
Jan 27 2009
Fewer DAB Digital Radio devices were sold in December 2008 than in the same month the year before, according to figures released today by the Digital Radio Development Bureau. The DRDB – digital radio’s trade body – said that 500,000 sets were sold during the month, 50,000 fewer than December 2007. Cumulative sales of sets […]
Oct 29 2007
Leaders of the UK’s commercial radio industry are calling on the Government to declare when analogue radio signals might be switched off. Andrew Harrison, chief executive of commercial radio trade body the RadioCentre, told The Times that a failure to decide radio’s future was “crippling the industry”. Harrison said the RadioCentre was lobbying ministers over […]
Jun 26 2007
Commercial radio companies in the UK are calling for a timetable to go from analogue to digital within eight years. The broadcasters want a timetable like the one for digital TV, so they don’t have to spend decades paying for both analogue and digital licences. RadioCentre, the commercial radio industry’s umbrella group, will ask Ofcom […]
Oct 19 2006
Digital radios will achieve a 50% household penetration by 2010, according to the Digital Radio Development Bureau (DRDB). Its annual forecast says sales of digital audio broadcasting (DAB) sets in 2006 will be around the 2m mark, delivering a household penetration of 13.9% by the end of 2006. This is expected to rise to more […]
Feb 6 2006
Nearly 500,000 digital radios were sold in the UK in December, putting cumulative sales at 2.7m by the end of 2005, according to market research for the Digital Radio Development Bureau (DRDB). The DRDB said 1.5m DAB receivers were sold in 2005, and 5.4m people were now listening to digital radio. DRDB chief executive Ian […]
BBC switch from SD to HD on satellite
Joint UK/international BBC News service from March
Loss of channels on Freesat 4K TV Boxes after a reset
Digital UK becomes “Everyone TV”
Rollout of BBC One HD for the English regions
ITVX launch month delivers 55% increase in ITV’s streaming viewing and 65% increase in online users
New Broadcast 2040+ researchBBC to switch off all SD satellite channels
ITV2/3/4 HD FTA
May 17 2018
50% of radio listening is now digital
Digital listening has reached a new record share of 50.9% – a landmark achievement for the industry which hopes will trigger action from the Government about the future of DAB. This compares to 47.2% in Q1 2017 and to 24.0% in Q1 2010 when the Government’s Digital Radio Action Plan, which outlined a programme of […]
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By Expat • Radio • Tags: DAB, Digital Radio, RAJAR