"Germany will end Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) next year after a
ten years experiment. Public radio stations demanded another EURO 180m to
keep it going, but the independent commission responsible for the
allocation of licence fees says it is over.

DAB has been under development since 1981, and Germany was the first
country in Europe to start test transmissions. However, the technology
never caught on - only a couple of public and regional radio stations
participated in experiments and 200,000 digital receivers were sold."

I love it!

jw

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"Germany will end Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) next year after a
ten years experiment. Public radio stations demanded another EURO 180m to
keep it going, but the independent commission responsible for the
allocation of licence fees says it is over.

DAB has been under development since 1981, and Germany was the first
country in Europe to start test transmissions. However, the technology
never caught on - only a couple of public and regional radio stations
participated in experiments and 200,000 digital receivers were sold."

I love it!

jw

Sounds like the sign of global digi-ennui...