Saturday, August 8, 2015

What's Next For Digital Radio?

What's Next For Digital Radio?

Most people know what DAB radio is, but what is DAB+ and why don't we have it in the UK? David Crookes takes a look

It may feel that Digital Audio Broadcasting is a relatively recent innovation, but the first country to roll it out was Norway, a smidgen over 20 years ago, Britain was not that far behind; the BBC debuted digital radio in September 1995. Yet, the fact that we're still talking about adoption rates of DAB shows just how slow it has been to take off. In 2008, things were so bad that emergency talks took place in Manchester to save digital radio, and it was being heralded as a very British failure in some quarters of the media.
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