For the first time ASEAN organised a digital radio workshop held in Brunei Darussalam on 15-16 Nov 2017. The aim was to discuss the status, challenges and intentions regarding the digitisation of radio broadcasting in the ASEAN countries. Representatives from all the 10 ASEAN countries...
Local Radio remains an important source of news of many but these stations are now facing the challenge of migrating to digital broadcasting but there are options for local stations if (and when) they want or can go digital. This is explored in the latest...
The 2017 ABU General Assembly and Technical Committee meetings took place from October 30 to November 4 in Chengdu, China, hosted in cooperation with Sichuan Radio and Television. The event was headlined “Media in the Times of Uncertainty”, and provided plenty of food for thought...
The workshop on ASEAN Digital Radio Broadcasting was held on day 1 of the two-day conference in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam, hosted by the Radio Television Brunei(RTB). The meeting was attended by delegates from the ten ASEAN countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines,...
The DRM Consortium Chair, Ruxandra Obreja in her latest blog for Radio World examines how digital radio can be a part of intelligent convergence, given the opportunity. Read more...
On the occasion of Africom, the pre-eminent media and communication event being held in Cape Town, South Africa (7-9 Nvember) a DRM Short wave BBC transmission was sent by Babcock International from their transmitter in Ascension Island towards this part of the world. The DRM Consortium...
The Istanbul International Film-TV Forum & Exhibition (IFTV) with the theme Transformation of Broadcasting of TV & radio industry was held in Istanbul between September 28-30 and it proved to be a new and improved version of the old IFTV event, already held several times in the big Turkish...
Radio Taiwan International will test in DRM in German on Oct 4 and 10 from 1800-1900 UTC on 9680 and 12030 kHz from Tamsui....
Press Release The DRM Consortium welcomes the announcement made by Via Licensing Corporation, a leading world-wide intellectual property solutions provider, of the highly efficient MPEG xHE-AAC audio codec (Extended High Efficiency AAC) to become in effect a default feature of the widely popular Advanced Audio Coding...
The Via Licensing Corporation has announced that it has added Extended High Efficiency AAC (xHE-AAC) to the patent pool licence agreement at no extra cost. The xHE-AAC is the first MPEG audio codec to combine speech and general-purpose audio coding in a unified system allowing...
