Re: Digital Radio Show - day one

Mike Terry wrote:
1 June 2006
Radio Today

Day one of The Digital Radio Show went, to my eyes, to perfection - I
think it can be safely said that the whole day was enjoyed by all!


Why, was there a lying competition taking place?

Seen this:

http://www.digital-radio-show.com/content/view/45/34/

"Quentin Howard, the original "Digital Evangelist", is the UK's leading
expert on commercial digital radio and acknowledged as the author of Britain's
world-dominating position in digital radio broadcasting."

If I were him I'd be absolutely desperate to keep all of that information
very secret, because, for an engineer, that has to be *the* most
embarrassing sentence in the entire world of broadcast engineering.

http://www.digital-radio-show.com/content/view/26/34/

"In 1997, Simon became Senior Strategy Manager, BBC Radio, working with the
then Director of Radio, Matthew Bannister. Promoted to Head of Strategy,
Radio, under the current Director of Radio & Music, Jenny Abramsky, he
worked on the development of the BBC's digital radio and new services
strategy."

D'oh!


The focus of the afternoon's sessions was truly multinational and
rather refreshing. From South Korea to Norway, and onto Sweden,


How odd, the Swedish government pulled the plug on DAB last year. Perhaps
Swedish Radio haven't got the message?


Denmark and France,


France won't be using DAB either, because their 5 largest radio broadcasters
are all vehemently opposed to using the outdated DAB system.

Presumably he's referring to the CEO at VDL (Nicolas Croiset's boss), Count
Dracula:

http://www.digital-radio-show.com/content/view/29/34/


Of particular interest was the panel analysing global digital radio
markets - Joan Warner, CEO of Commercial Radio Australia, spoke about
the country's plans for using Eureka 147 with AAC+ encoding. No
doubt, as one of the follow-ups to the event here on Radio Today,
we'll focus-in on 'DAB+'.


<Jim Bowen> Come on then folks, let's see what you could've won.

Anyway, I was the first one to use the term "DAB+" on my website, then I
removed all references to it because DABv2 had caught on, but I think I'll
start using DAB+ again now that it seems to be accepted.


--
Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info

Find the cheapest Freeview & DAB prices:
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