[A-DX] The long, slow birth of DAB radio

[Juergen Fenn <juergen.fenn@xxxxxx>]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10569231

| A push is underway to get listeners to switch from analogue to DAB
| digital radio, but the technology is almost 30 years old. Why did it
| take so long to reach the airwaves?

[...]

| DAB advocates say it is on the road that the format's self-tuning
| properties are best showcased, and the government says it is working
| with car manufacturers to make digital radios standard in cars by
| 2013. Additionally, the BBC says it will improve in-car reception by
| placing more transmitters near major motorway networks as part of a
| programme to increase UK coverage from 85 to 92%.
|
| The new government, however, has rowed back on its predecessor's
| target to switch off analogue by the middle of the decade, with Mr
| Vaizey promising that if people are still listening to, say, the BBC
| on FM by 2015, then that "will continue".
|
| Whether DAB turns out to be the future, as Paul Donovan expects, or
| is already part of the past, as Grant Goddard argues, it has already
| consumed a sizeable chunk of broadcasting history.

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