28 Jan 2017

2nd stage of analogue FM radio switch-off in Norway

On 8 February 2017 at 11:11:11 in counties Møre og Romsdal, Nord- and Sør-Trøndelag began the next stage of analogue FM radio broadcasting switch-off with NRK public radio programmes and will finish on Friday, 21 April 2017 with commercial radio programmes inc. P4 and Radio Norge and few local radio stations from Trondheim, the city known from the winter sports events. Moreover earlier, Radio Rock and Radio 1 Hits (both from Trondheim) were switched-off on 31 December 2015 due to budget savings as well as Radio Metro Trondheim 7 months later. So as mentioned at the beginning that on 8 February 2017 at 11:11:11 NRK radio programmes will be switched-off during Digital Radio Summit in Geneva, Switzerland.
UPDATE: Switch-off event took place at the Tyholt Tower in Trondheim and was broadcasted live on NRK website and on Facebook.

25 Jan 2017

Why ORF is very radically opposed to DAB+? What will be possible consequences? Truths about e-radio weaknesses

When Austria has already decided on the choice of a standard digital radio. Then selected DAB+ as digital radio standard. There was an extremely fierce criticism from Alexander Wrabetz, General Director of ORF which is serving uniterruptible since 2007 which claims that future of radio is only on Internet and the mobile devices, so ORF strongly boycotts DAB+ which according to Wrabetz, it wasn't successful in many European countries. In my opinion, Wrabetz opinions are completely lying and hypocritical. Nevertheless, radio channels of ORF such as Oe1, Radio Tirol, Hitradio Oe3 and FM4 are broadcast on DAB+ on the RAS network in South Tirol, Italy and can be also received in the Italian-Austrian border area.

24 Jan 2017

1st stage of analogue FM radio switch-off in Norway

As mentioned in previous post, on 11 January 2017 at 11:11:11 in the Norwegian region Nordland analogue FM radio broadcasting were switched-off with exception for local radio stations.

23 Jan 2017

Digital switchover in Norway

On 11 January 2017 was held the event about digital switchover in Bodø, Norway at Stormen Library. At 11:11:11 radio enthusiast, Berith Pauline Olderskog dragged lever from FM to DAB which most FM radio channels were switched off. However, NRK P1 Troms continue broadcasting on analogue FM radio until 13 December 2017 on frequency 90.1 MHz (mcps) from Andenes/Ramnan in Nordland because is directed into Troms region. Most local radio stations will remain for 5 years.

Hi Everybody! This is the first post.

Hi, I'm Pepek, I live in Poland and I will lead a blog that will be concerned on digital radio in Europe because I'm interested on radio in many years. Hopefully that unofficial blog about European Digital Radio will accept.