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Norway to be First Nation to Switch Off National Analog FM Stations

posted by martyb on Tuesday April 21 2015, @03:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the digital-killed-the-fm-star dept.

"gewg_" writes:

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.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday April 22 2015, @09:57AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday April 22 2015, @09:57AM (#173892) Journal

    Your radio would need a back channel to do any spying.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @10:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @10:36AM (#173904)

    Quite easy with a short-range transmitter sending beacon signals (even when powered off ?).

    It can listen for certain words in a conversation and keep a record of the last five minutes (30 minutes, 120 minutes...) on a circular buffer. If certain words are heard by the radio, it sends the beacon, so "law enforcement officials" can break down your door and confiscate the evidence (your radio). They are doing the same with mobile phones, so why not radio?