A glimpse of digital radio’s future in the UK was seen today with the publication of the UK governments Digital Radio Working Group (DRWG) interim report.
The DRWG comprises of key industry members including BBC and commercial broadcasters, radio manufacturers, car companies and relevant government departments. Their group was formed to find out what conditions were needed for digital to become the dominant radio medium, what the barriers are to growth and how to overcome them.
Their main recommendations are

DAB is the most appropriate replacement for analogue
National and regional stations move exclusively …

What if no-one thought outside-of-the-box when it came to the internet ?
We’d be left with just text and hyper-links as Tim Berners-Lee designed it. There’d be no jpg pictures, no video, no social networking, no music.  It would just do as it was meant to – connect computers. Boring. Thank God porn came along and thought of clever ways to get their content online to the benefit of us all.
Today, have you considered this scenario is happening with DAB ? Despite the fact DAB can transmit any kind of data, …

Sorry to hear UBC have shut-down their mobile phone music download service Cliq
I believe Simon, Pascal and the guys at UBC have the right idea but perhaps they’re pursuing it on the wrong platform. Yes mobile phones are ubiquitous but they are essentially communication devices. You’ll use your phone to take some pictures or listen to some music but it’s dominant use is to communicate with phone calls and text.
RAJAR shows the amount of people who have ever listened to radio on a mobile phone is just over 10%. They …

After the debacle of GCap “pulling out” of DAB there has been lots of great news coming from the UK in the past few weeks.
The biggest news concerns Planet Rock, one of the most successful stations on DAB, and a surprise casualty of GCap’s corporate survival. Since GCap pulled the plug, Queen guitarist Brian May tried to purchase the station but was beaten to it by entrepreneur Malcolm Bluemel. Nothing like a little healthy competition in a sale! Bottom line is Planet Rock lives on with the backing of a …