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 …

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. …