Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Confirming rumours circulating in the UK over the past few months,
Luxembourg-based commercial broadcaster RTL Group has released a promotional
DVD which sets out its strategy for using Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM). One
of the options under consideration is reviving the English service, which
ran until the early 90's on mediumwave 1440 kHz. A chart showing requested
usage of longwave, mediumwave and shortwave for DRM indicates that RTL has
requested a shortwave frequency covering the UK, while mediumwave and
longwave are under consideration.

Other DRM expansion plans include a shortwave service for
transcontinental/eastern Europe, a mediumwave service for Belgium and the
Netherlands, and a fourth RTL network for France. RTL says it expects DRM
consumer receivers to be shipping in quantity by the second half of 2005.

http://medianetwork.blogspot.com/ (see website for chart)

Mike Terry schreef:

Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Confirming rumours circulating in the UK over the past few months,
Luxembourg-based commercial broadcaster RTL Group has released a promotional
DVD which sets out its strategy for using Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM). One
of the options under consideration is reviving the English service, which
ran until the early 90's on mediumwave 1440 kHz. A chart showing requested
usage of longwave, mediumwave and shortwave for DRM indicates that RTL has
requested a shortwave frequency covering the UK, while mediumwave and
longwave are under consideration.

Other DRM expansion plans include a shortwave service for
transcontinental/eastern Europe, a mediumwave service for Belgium and the
Netherlands, and a fourth RTL network for France. RTL says it expects DRM
consumer receivers to be shipping in quantity by the second half of 2005.

http://medianetwork.blogspot.com/ (see website for chart)

Wonder who will BUY such a DRM receiver.
In most target countries we have loads of stations in excellent quality
on FM.
RTL runs 2 stations here in Holand: Yorin FM and RTL FM. Both are
performing very bad.
What the hell do they want with DRM for this country.

In the UK people ar now starting to buy DAB receivers, which gives them
something extra such as AM stations in better quality.

For speech AM has more than enough sound quality.
Almost all receivers still have AM, so easy accessable.

Do we need DRM: or is it the broadcasters that try to sell AM with a new
technology instead of better FORMATS.

ruud