The UK Government published its plan for a digital Britain today naming 2015 as their “Digital Radio Upgrade” year when FM services will move to DAB only and MW services will move to FM.By naming a date, the government in one pivotal move, has finally given the industry a goal to work towards similar to the 2012 deadline which is working so well for the digital switchover in television. The plan for radio contains a number of keys dates as follows:
2013:

All DAB receivers sold in the UK to conform to …

Grant Goddard is a UK journalist with a distinct interest in DAB radio there.  You can follow his blog here.
Recently he attended the Radio 3.0 Conference in London and posted the Q&A Session with Ofcom Chief Ed Richards as follows:
Q: Isn’ t the big issue with DAB ‘[FM] switchoff’?….
ER: It is one big question but it definitely isn’t the only big question. And the difference with TV is very instructive. One of the profound differences with TV, of course, is that in the case of TV you couldn’t extend Freeview …