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posted by janrinok on Tuesday April 28 2015, @03:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the elites-with-flawed-data-making-choices dept.

El Reg reports

With digital reaching its audience targets, the government set a 2017 date for the death of analogue FM radio in [Norway].

[...]However, the Norwegian Local Radio Association disputes the communications ministry's figure, pointing instead to Norwegian Government Statistical Bureau data that "listening to DAB radio is presently limited to 19% on a daily basis."

In an e-mail sent to Vulture South [El Reg's Australian operation], the association says the Minister of Culture's announcement swept up DVB-T and Internet radio to claim that "digital listening" had hit the 50 per cent target that triggers an FM switch-off.

The association also notes that an all-DAB nation would provide a lot less service to motoring tourists without digital radios in their cars. "This proposed change means that most visitors will not be able to listen to national channels or public radio for emergency alerts, traffic or other important information", the group said in a media release e-mailed to El Reg. It claims that a focus on large broadcasters would leave FM investments by community radio stranded.

The local broadcasters are backed by the Progress Party, a partner in the coalition government in Norway, [as well as by] the Greens.

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

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 28 2015, @11:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 28 2015, @11:14PM (#176319)

    They can kinda make a small digital to analog retransmitter. Something that takes the digital spectra and retransmits a localized analog one on an FM station that the radio receiver on your car can pick up. Such a thing can easily be plugged into a cigarette lighter or someplace.