2017 is the year when the national FM network is scheduled to be turned off in Norway. After that, all radio listening digital, whether the authorities plan goes as it should.
Digital radio means more channels and more content. There should be an end to fuzzy channels and radio to be more compatible with flow services and other digital content, said campaigners.
Says NO
While there is a considerable crowd seemingly intelligent people who fight against the amendment. They will retain the FM network. Extinguishing Opponents are in different organizations, they have their own groups on Facebook, they write newspaper articles and now they have started a special website to gather resistance fighters FM network.
– Digital radio Norway and NRK have pumped DAB message of the Norwegian people for many years. NRK running massive campaigns in primetime as translated into commercial airtime will be worth tens of millions. Where they really have misinformed or failed to inform, is in relation to what has happened in Europe. They deny the fact, says Svein Larsen TV 2.
DAB in Norway
DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) is a digital broadcasting technology. It is often used as generic term for both DAB and DAB +. DAB + is the new edition of the technology and used today.
The development of the national DAB network was completed in September last year. 759 transmitters covering 99.5 percent of the population. The price tag on the web are 1 billion.
The Parliament has decided that the FM network will be shut. This will happen at the earliest in 2017 and assumes that five requirements are met. Government considering our whether it would be prudent to close the FM network.
He points out that no other country has adopted some quench date and that skepticism to DAB is great including Sweden and Denmark.
Larsen Head of Radio Metro and Chairman in Norwegian local radio federation. Larsen has been a central radio man in Norway for decades. In 1992 he negotiated with Telecom, which wanted him to start P4 directly on DAB and not go the way of the FM network, but P4 started FM and Larsen and P4 was involved in experimental activities on DAB already in 1994.
WILL KEEP FM INTERNET: Radio Manager Svein Larsen. Photo: Radio Metro
– But it did not materialize any excess value FM. That was what was the problem, and we therefore did not any more with this, says Larsen, who resigned as manager of P4 in 1999.
force of the new platform
16 years later he seems still it is difficult to spot any added value with DAB. Meanwhile transition a problem for many small players with limited resources.
As chairman of Norwegian local radio federation Larsen one of the initiators of the website La FM live, to gather support to keep the old radio network.
– If the big players will leave FM, they must be free to do so. But why force smaller Norwegian actors to do the same? That is the main question. We have not asked for this, says Larsen.
many listeners: FM fans are encouraged to upload photos of their FM radios on the website lafmleve. no. Facsimile: lafmleve
Do buy new radios
On the website La FM live one can read that the transition to DAB will cause an additional economic cost for the consumer. Radio activists believe more arguments in favor of retaining the FM network:
Environment and economy. There are a large number of FM appliances in Norway. Estimates vary from 8.5 million to 20 million. These radios will be received nationwide channels in two years. Meanwhile, consumers must pay for new DAB sets. The bill is calculated at 10 billion.
Automotive. Today there are around 2.5 million passenger cars in Norway. Most missing DAB radio and need adapter solutions or new radios whether to continue to listen to the radio in the car. The cheapest adapters cost from 700 kroner, but then one must live with loose wires in the center console and antenna must be taped in windshield. Integrated solutions cost more and must be assembled at the workshop unless one is pretty finger finished.
– We believe solutions (for retrofitting, ed.’s Note.) Are not perfect and / or relatively expensive and that it therefore would be premature and unnecessary to extinguish FM network already in 2017, wrote Norwegian Automobile Importers Association in a letter to the Ministry of Culture and Media Authority in April 2014.
According to Information Council road traffic was 20-25 percent of initial registration new cars in 2014 delivered with DAB.
BIL-DAB: TV2 reportage cars have digital radio, but most With older cars will have to buy a DAB receiver as an option. Photo: Lars Barth Heyerdahl / TV 2
Emergency. FM network has an important role in bringing information to people about anything would happen. Cars without DAB and most foreign vehicles in Norway will not be able to receive information about closed mountain passes and tunnels when FM network shut down.
alert controlled via the FM network, and the company which operates the air raid sirens have terminated the agreement from 1 January 2017, according to TU. 1250 alarm must be rebuilt when the FM network breaks.
Technique. Critics claim that DAB technology is outdated. No other country has adopted the closure of FM network. In England, which has been one of the pioneering countries in DAB, should FM network closed recently in 2018, but this was postponed.
Sound. Experts believe DAB technology will never reach up to a good FM receiver. In an article titled “Therefore sucks DAB sound” explains journalist Geir Gråbein Nordby TV & Audio why: data flow is throttled to accommodate more channels.
A series NRK channels are broadcast on 80 and 96 kbps. The data stream is thus too low to deliver sound of good quality. Stromme Services such as Spotify and Wimp typically operate with 256 and 320 kbps, while a CD has a bitrate of 1411 kbps.
– It should be noted that AAC compression used DAB + is very effective, and tunes up close to CD quality at 256 kbps. If this average reached around 128 kbps, then I will look at this as an advance over FM clean sonically explains Nordby in an email to TV 2.
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Outside Norway Norway
Per Morten Hoff, Secretary General of the organization ICT Norway, has distinguished himself as a strong opponent against fighters FM network.
– Norway will be an outside country, says Hoff TV 2.
See TV2 test of DAB radios:
– DAB does not give better sound, it gives a few more channels. But in our world it happens so much with such great speed that it is a giant risk to spend so much money on building out DAB. Streaming and satellite radio are other technologies that focus on. In some countries they have begun to develop 5G network, which is a thousand times faster than 4G. There is tremendous capacity in these networks, so why should we listen to radio via mobile phone, ask Hoff.
He believes the problem is that NRK at one point had spent so much money on DAB commitment that it would be a scandal if it was discontinued. Hoff is critical to the process that led to the Parliament decided to close down the FM network.
– During the hearing in Parliament produced NRK that if everyone in the world should turn off the FM network. So far, no country decided it apart from Norway. Even in Britain – DABens homeland – the Culture Minister said that no speech closing FM network because they will be there the listener is. In Norway there is more talk of the technology than the listener, says Hoff TV 2.
Must select digital
One of requirements for closing FM network is that at least half of radio listeners must use a digital platform daily. In December 2014 industry could tell that 52 percent use digital radio.
The figure however includes all sorts of digital listening. If you listen to radio via an app on their mobile phone or via the television decoder, it counts as arguments to turn the FM network.
Per Morten Hoff think people will get the shock that day FM transmitters dies.
– There are huge sums they must pay to buy new radios. It is amazing that the Parliament agreed DAB rollout, says Hoff.
Sources: regjeringen.no La FM live, Sound and Vision, Information Council road traffic, Aftenposten, Dagens Næringsliv
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