Canada in Digital Radio Limbo (and so is everyone else)
BobTheFraudStruble wrote:
"Canada in Digital Radio Limbo"
"OTTAWA, Ontario Going nowhe These two words succinctly sum up
the state of Canadian digital radio broadcasting, or DRB.
Despite years of offering Eureka-147 DAB simulcasts of AM and FM
signals in L-band (14521492 MHz) in major metro markets, broadcasters
have virtually no listeners and no market profile.
L-band DAB is in limbo, said Canadian broadcast technical consultant
Wayne Stacey, who has been involved with Canadian DRB for the past 20
years. In fact, from a transmission standpoint, the band is dying.
I haven't got time to read the rest, but thought I should say the Canada
have never really pushed their DAB radio system.
Also having it only on L-Band probably didn't help, as that makes it
very expensive to provide any reasonable coverage. I seem to remember
reading that coverage was very limited, and there were sod all receivers
available in the shops.
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