Significant political weight to the adoption of digital radio across Europe has come from Vice-President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes. (pic)
In her opening address to this weeks Association of European Radio Conference (AER) she has come out in support of establishing a digital standard to protect the medium of radio in the future. Her comments echo sentiments made by BAI Chairman Bob Collins last year. Her full speech is here;
Ladies and gentlemen,
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The first speech by Bob Collins, the new Chairman of the BAI, appears to mark a departure from the Authorities traditional focus on the administrative end of regulation to a more visionary stance.
Mr Collins called on the commercial broadcasting sector to take a more active part in emerging technologies. “Commercial broadcasters cannot stand back and see digital radio as being only something for public service broadcasting” he said. “Digital radio is an area where we have to be involved. We can’t stand back as observers of technological and editorial development …