Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Consortium (www.drm.org) is planning an impactful, in-person presence at IBC 2025 (ibc.org), Amsterdam, the Netherlands (12th-15th September).
The DRM Consortium is perfectly aligned with the themes of IBC 2025 (“Shaping the Future”), planning to demonstrate in Hall 8, RAI, over two days that digital radio DRM is the future as part of the key digital platforms of our times.
For this edition, the DRM Consortium is putting the spotlight on receivers, additional services, and benefits of the standard and distribution.
On September 12th the DRM Consortium has planned to give the latest on receivers and receiver solutions in a session hosted for the first time at the Starwaves (receivers) booth (1600-1730), part of the German Pavilion.
The next day, September 13th Fraunhofer IIS invites all those interested in digital radio to stop and join them at 1600-1730 to get the latest developments and announcements on DRM, like the R8 release of the DRM ContentServer technology and potentially an important industry cooperation project on the receiver side.
At all the events meet DRM experts and network with those involved in promoting the global, all-frequency, efficient DRM standard.
If you cannot travel to Amsterdam this year, the consortium will try to keep you updated on the sessions so you can also get the latest information on new, exciting DRM IBC announcements. To get the latest on the DRM IBC plans, please check this dedicated page drm.org/ibc-2025/ for regular updates.
The DRM Chairman, Ruxandra Obreja, thinks that: “the theme of this year’s IBC is perfectly aligned with the DRM message of ensuring your connected future. Enabling rich content in very good audio quality, accompanied by rich multimedia, delivering emergency warnings (EWF) and distance learning are just some of the aspects we will illustrate at IBC 2025. DRM is making progress in many key countries of the world. In an unstable world global DRM is robust, saves energy and spectrum and ensures full-country coverage.”
If you want to join the DRM in person, please contact: projectoffice@drm.org.
If you want the latest on the DRM at IBC 2025 go to: www.drm.org/ibc-2025/.
About DRM
Digital Radio Mondiale™ (DRM) is the universal, openly standardised digital radio system for all broadcasting frequencies and coverage needs.
DRM on short, medium and long wave up to 30 MHz provides for efficient coverage in large areas with at least FM quality, while significantly reducing power consumption. DRM in the FM & VHF bands above 30 MHz enables flexible local and regional broadcaster-controlled services, with up to 3 stereo audio programmes plus multimedia components in half the bandwidth of a single analogue FM signal.
Advanced radio functionality thanks to DRM comprises: More services based on the highly efficient audio codec MPEG xHE-AAC and free-to-air Journaline multi-lingual text information, detailed service signalling, service linking (including to analogue AM/FM services) and DRM EWF – Emergency Warning Functionality. Enhanced DRM features include native Unicode support, station logos via SPI, Slideshow images and traffic and travel information.
The DRM Consortium was awarded by ITU for its outstanding contribution to the Telecommunications sector over the past years and has signed the EBU Smart Radio Memorandum that promotes access to free to air radio on all devices.
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