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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 21 2015, @08:03PM
Sounds like the GGP is thinking of ATSC in the USA.
Back when the switchover from NTSC happened, in sci.electronics.design we had a guy that lived in the mountains who noted that if a plane flew over he would lose 5 minutes of his movie.
(ATSC has essentially zero tolerance for multipath.)
If clouds rolled in, he would lose the rest of the evening's broadcasts.
Other folks in remote areas that could previously get snowy reception now got nothing.
Ones and zeros are great--as long as your ones are all above the logic threshold.
The protocol the USA adopted seems to have been chosen by the cable TV industry.
Now, it wouldn't surprise me a bit if digital radio in the USA has been done just as badly as TV was.
-- gewg_