Digital Radio Ltd are happy to announce our official support for the RadioDNS project.
RadioDNS enables radio broadcasters to link their FM/DAB signal to IP delivered services significantly enhancing the radio listening experience. This means an FM/DAB radio or mobile phone with wi-fi can identify a radio station from its DAB or FM signal. Using that information it can connect to the radio stations web-server to display additional content on the radio itself.
Radio DNS is very clever in its simplicity and its supporters include very large broadcasters in Europe, United States …

Tagging is simply hitting a button on your DAB radio so it will remember a bit of information playing on the screen.
The video below shows tagging in operation using an iPhone app called TuneMark. When you hear a song you want to remember the name of, you tag it.  With this app you can look up the song name later, email it to yourself or shock horror even buy it on the iTunes store.
This is all nice and sweet for the music industry but what I really like about it …

The Australian is reporting that more than 100,000 digital radios have been sold Down Under in the six months since DAB+ launched there.
The figure, twice as many as expected, was revealed by Frontier Silicon the company which supplies the chips and software for the majority of receivers in the market. Chief Executive of Frontier Silicon, Anthony Sethill, says they expect a further 250,000 sales this year meaning Australia will have 400,000 units in the market by Christmas.
Joan Warner of Commercial Radio Australia said they will “have official figures in March …

The Guardian reported yesterday on plans by the UK industry to introduce a radio scrappage scheme similar to the car industry. The plan suggests that people will receive a 20% subsidy on a new DAB set when they hand in their old analogue radio.
This idea is actually quite commonplace. As mentioned the motor industry has its own scrappage/subsidy scheme in place right now. Most times when you buy a mobile phone the real cost is subsidised by the network operator. Sky have almost always subsidised their boxes and if I’m …

Another big advantage of DAB+ is the Slideshow feature which allows broadcasters to display colour images on the listeners radio.
This brings radio kicking and screaming into the multimedia age allowing stations to show useful information such as now playing, weather, news etc as well as station promotions and, yes, even advertising!
Slideshow is a great way of constantly making available information you don’t want repeating over and over and over on-air. One of the biggest listener complaints on music radio is that the DJ’s don’t say the names of the songs. …