There is absolutely no point in developing DAB if we don’t know what the long-term plan is. Where we are going with DAB is the big question not being answered by Irish legislators, regulators or the industry itself.The Broadcasting Bill 2008 proposes a licence extension to FM broadcasters if they also simulcast on DAB. Why bother? All that achieves is extending the broadcasters business plan and allowing the listener to hear the same thing on a different band. There needs to be more. How about a licence extension to FM …

There I was reading the Sunday Buiness Post and an interview with RTE’s Paul Russell on RTE’s DAB launch when I got a bit of a shock at the end. In response to the journalist Catherine O’Mahony I say … watch this space !
The article reads as follows;
Meanwhile, DAB has been parked for now in the world of commercial broadcasting.
Worst affected by this is Dusty Rhodes, a DAB enthusiast who set up Digital Radio Ltd and developed a number of new services for broadcast over DAB.
Now that the commercial sector …

Here is a simple alternative way of looking at national DAB coverage suggested at the Digital Radio Now conference in London recently.Everyone expects that any national radio service currently available to 95%+ of the population should also be available on DAB to 95%+ of the population. This is as it should be but does it mean that to accommodate public and commercial broadcasters that we establish two expensive national mulitplexes with that kind of coverage? The suggestion from London is no.
Why not have one national mulitplex carrying all the current …