11.01.2017
Norway becomes world's first country to switch off FM radio
Norway has become the first country to switch off FM radio despite concerns about the move being premature. The northern county of Nordland stopped broadcasting using analogue frequencies on Wednesday as the Government plans to roll out digital-only radio over the course of the year.
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11.01.2017
Could the UK be next to ditch FM for DAB?
Norway is the first country in the world to switch off its analogue radio signals. Ford Ennals, chief executive of Digital Radio UK, defends the decision on the Today programme, saying FM stations are "full up". He argues that to make way for innovative new stations we need to move to digital, which he calls "the future".
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11.01.2017
Countdown to a digital only Norway begins
Laurence Harrison, Market Development Director, Digital Radio UK reflect on his trip to Norway ahead of the digital switchover.
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11.01.2017
Norway leads digital radio wave
“A digital radio wave moving across Europe, with Norway leading the way,” is how Patrick Hannon, WorldDAB president, described Wednesday’s switch-off of FM broadcasts in Nordland county.
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11.01.2017
Norway becomes the first country to shut down national analogue radio
Today, Norway will start shutting down analogue radio signals nationally, becoming the first nation in the world to broadcast digital radio only.
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11.01.2017
Wednesday marks the beginning of Norway's FM switchover
The Norwegian government has said the cost savings will let broadcasters invest more in programming, and give listeners a better and more reliable sound that will be more easily receivable in a country with lots of mountains and rocks.
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11.01.2017
Norway ignores bad reception and starts FM radio switch-off
The Norwegian government has said the cost savings will let broadcasters invest more in programming, and give listeners a better and more reliable sound that will be more easily receivable in a country with lots of mountains and rocks.
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11.01.2017
Leading the charge; Norway signals the end for FM
The decision to completely switch off all FM services is not one which has been taken lightly by Norway’s government, and was announced two years ago in April 2015 with the process to begin this month, in January 2017.
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11.01.2017
The facts: The Norwegian FM switch-off
The digital switchover doesn't mean there is suddenly FM silence across Norway. If you switched off everything at once everywhere there would probably be difficulties. The digital switchover is a year long process. Norway is divided into regions and the switch off will happen region by region.
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11.01.2017
, What Norway's digital switchover means for Belgium
Francis Goffin from RTBF explores the progress of DAB+ in Belgium and the possibilty of hosting their own digital switchover in the coming years.
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