For the past few years, RTÉ and a number of commercial stations including our own All 80s and Mocha R’n’B stations, have been running trial DAB broadcasts in the Dublin area. This trial ends in a few days with good news and bad news.
The good news is that RTÉ have aquired a full DAB licence and launch six full services from Monday. The bad news is that commercial stations such as ourselves are still waiting for legislation to be passed to enable us to do the same. While we wait …

 
Radio people get very excited about DAB and it’s ability to offer more radio stations. One of the key drivers for DAB consumers is the amount of new stations available. This in itself though is not enough.Completely ignored is DAB’s ability to transmit data. This could be as simple as displaying the name of a song playing now on air, the name of the programme or guest currently being interviewed. It can expand to a full EPG showing all the programmes on a station during the day. Best yet is …

In October key proponents of DAB from around the world gathered in London for the Digital Radio Show conference. It was held in the Armouries Hall in London with a rather unique wall display as you can see above! The result of the conference was some real information being exchanged on how DAB is progressing worldwide and the following are some notes I made while attending.
Greg Watson -MuxCo
In the UK it costs approx £20m a year to run all the DAB mux transmitters. The cost is high for two reasons. …