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, @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.