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Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017

Posted by timothy on from the video-sought-by-police-for-questioning dept.

New submitter titten writes The Norwegian Ministry of Culture has announced that the transition to DAB will be completed in 2017. This means that Norway, as the first country in the world to do so, has decided to switch off the FM network. Norway began the transition to DAB in 1995. In recent years two national and several local DAB-networks has been established. 56 per cent of radio listeners use digital radio every day. 55 per cent of households have at least one DAB radio, according to Digitalradio survey by TNS Gallup, continuously measuring the Norwegian`s digital radio habits.

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  1. Perfect time by ArchieBunker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For pirate FM stations to fly their flags.

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    Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
  2. DAB or DAB+? by Rising+Ape · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I find here in the UK the DAB stations often sound worse than their FM equivalents, thanks to an antiquated codec (MP2!). DAB+ was supposed to fix this by using AAC+, but that doesn't seem to have been deployed here. Backwards compatibility issues I guess.