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26 Nov AIR Fully Committed to DRM – Requests Full Support of Automotive Industry for Nationwide Rollout

Posted at 16:10h in News

  All India Radio updated the 2nd NXP Car Forum (on November 25th) by giving details about new transmitters, extended pure DRM transmissions, extra content and improved communication. All India Radio is fully committed to DRM Digital Radio for all of India. AIR urged the Automotive Industry...

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26 Nov Does Emergency Warning Really Work on DRM?

Posted at 13:48h in News

  Ruxandra Obreja, DRM Chair, writes in Radio World on the recent demonstration by the Indonesian public broadcaster, RRI  of DRM's Emergency Warning Functionality.  Read more...

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26 Nov New Pakistan Automotive Policy to Mandate DRM in Cars

Posted at 12:46h in News

  Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) has requested that the Government includes the Policy for equipping all cars in Pakistan with DRM receivers in its automotive policy. This will be discussed for inclusion in the Automotive Industry Development and Export Plan for 2021-2026 of the Ministry of...

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26 Nov Short-wave DRM Digital Radio Broadcasts Begin in Brazil

Posted at 12:39h in News

  On 25th November 2020 Rádio Nacional da Amazônia started an experimental transmission using the digital DRM standard (Digital Radio Mondiale) in shortwave. The transmission is being broadcast on 11880 kHz, on the 25m band. A 2.5 kW transmitter developed and produced in Porto Alegre (south...

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18 Nov The challenges of Analogue and Digital broadcasting in the shortwave bands

Posted at 13:35h in News

  Shortwave knows no boundaries or international borders and despite its apparent decline over recent years, it continues to provide a lifeline service for audiences over large areas or in remote corners of the planet and territories where free access to news, information or education is...

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18 Nov DRM Gospell Receivers Available to buy in India through Antriksh Digital Solutions

Posted at 13:23h in News

  Gospell Digital Technology Co., Ltd (www.gospell.com) and Antriksh Digital Solution LLP of India (www.antrikshdigital.com) have recently signed a cooperation agreement for the sale of DRM digital radio products in the Indian market. The two parties have also officially launched the promotion of Gospell’s DRM receiver...

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16 Nov South Africa – Big Positive Step Towards Creating Radio Digitisation Framework

Posted at 17:01h in News

  Following from the publication of its policy on sound broadcasting digitisation in July (https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/202007/43514gon759.pdf), the South African regulator has worked hard and just published draft regulations on how this policy can become reality (https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/202011/43900gen639.pdf). South Africa is the first country in Africa and the world which...

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16 Nov Pure DRM Transmissions Increased in India

Posted at 14:36h in News

  All India Radio has decided to extend the pure DRM transmissions on 4 key DRM mediumwave transmitters in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata. Two of these (Chennai -783kHz and Delhi – 1638kHz) have a power of 20kW and the other two (Mumabai -1044kHz and Kolkata...

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11 Nov Two DRM Specifications were Published by ETSI this week

Posted at 12:31h in News

  ETSI TS 101 968 - DRM data applications directory : https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/101900_101999/101968/01.04.01_60/ts_101968v010401p.pdf. This  fully backward compatible update and simplification of the core DRM standard itself contains updates to the table of FAC (Fast Access Channel) Application identifiers to include SlideShow and the special indicator that allows...

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09 Nov DRM Awareness Campaign in India

Posted at 15:58h in News

  One of the most fervent and effective DRM supporters in India has proven to be Dr Thamminana Krushna Rao from the Andhra Pradesh state. He has mounted, on his own, a DRM communication campaign the car users who already benefit in some cases from the...

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