Re: BBC radio chief Jenny Abramsky urges unity on DAB

The reason is simple: it is the only platform that replicates some of
radio's strongest features. It is both portable and easy to use."

The only portable platform? Is it Jenny? Is it, you technically
incompetent idiot? Is it the only portable platform? Do you own a
mobile phone, Jenny? Have you learnt to use it yet?

Mobile phones also have much better information displays than DAB radios. If
you still own an outdated mobile with a 2 line monochrome text display (of
the type used almost universally by DAB radios) then you're expected to put
a brown paper bag over it, hand your head in shame, and leg it to the
nearest mobile phone shop to get an up to date mobile with a colour graphics
screen.

DAB radios will have to go the same way. I think radio stations of the
future will still retain the character of radio, but we'll get used to the
idea that there's a optional moving colour picture that goes with it, as we
do with the phones. Technically, any up to date mobile phone could be
defined as a TV, but we still think of it as a phone. Likewise, tomorrow's
digital radios could technically be defined as TV's, but we'll still use
them and think of them as radios.

But she said the most important factor in radio's future was content.
"Without content there will be no future. Content is everything."

Where the present DAB system clearly is proving useful, in my area at any
rate, is for Chill, Gold and PRL. Chill is unique and I don't think it would
ever have got going without DAB, or some way of radically extending the FM
band. I often hear Gold (formerly Capital Gold) playing in shops, and
invariably it's DAB, not 1548 AM which wouldn't work inside the shop. Polish
Radio London would be limited to a much smaller area like London Greek Radio
is on FM. DAB gives them what they want for their specialist programming - a
frequency with good reception over the whole region, the likes of which
would not be made available on FM or AM.



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