The Government of Norway announces
[April 16], the Ministry of Culture announced a national FM-switch off, to complete the transition to digital radio. Norway is making [a] historical move into a new radio era, being the first country in the world to decide upon an analogue switch-off for all major radio channels. With DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) and digital radio, listeners will be provided with more radio channels and greater diversity in content.
[...]The DAB-coverage in Norway now exceeds FM-coverage. DAB provides Norway with 22 national channels, as opposed to five channels transmitting nationwide on FM.
[...]Switch-off starts in Nordland county 11th January 2017 and ends with the northernmost counties Troms and Finnmark [13th December] 2017.
Official announcement in Norwegian. Also covered at Ars Technica.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday April 21 2015, @06:01PM
I thought shortwave is AM, too?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Touché) by M. Baranczak on Tuesday April 21 2015, @06:38PM
Yes, you are correct. Shortwave radio uses amplitude modulation as well. My original comment was, therefore, highly ambiguous, and there's absolutely no way that anybody could have figured out my intended meaning.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday April 21 2015, @07:08PM
Which is? Maybe there's a specifically American second meaning of AM? I honestly don't know.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by cwix on Tuesday April 21 2015, @09:08PM
In the United States AM is the band of radio that is licensed to stations and uses 540 - 1610 khz. This is also known as Medium wave.