The BBC's Digital Planet podcast episode of April 14th features an interview on benefits of the standard with DRM Chair, Ruxandra Obreja. Listen here, starting from minute 21...
At the recent virtual DRM General Assembly participants from all continents reviewed the intense and successful activities of 2019-2020. Here is a selection and reminder of these activities promoted by DRM members and experts at events held across the globe. DRM Highlights Across the Globe ...
In times of coronavirus radio comes into its own with its great presence enhanced by existing benefits while future applications can become as useful as audio; is the topic of DRM Chair, Ruxandra Obreja's blog in RadioWorld....
In an article in Radio World International, Hans Johnson takes a look at the use of DRM broadcasts on shortwave in Russia. Read more...
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has just published their final 55-page Report on the Future Delivery of Radio this month (March 2020) based on 22 submissions (including one sent by the DRM Consortium) to their initial Consultation issued in May 2019. ACMA concludes that due...
Press Release The DRM Consortium held its virtual General Assembly on March 25th with the participation of members from all over the world. They had a chance to get updated on the rich variety of activities undertaken in 2019-2020 such as the recent stakeholders’ meeting held by...
Author: Gerhard Straub On February 4 of this year, the United States Agency for Global Media’s (“USAGM”) Office of Cuba Broadcasting (“OCB”), in cooperation with USAGM’s Office of Technology, Services, and Innovation (“TSI”), began DRM test transmissions from the Edward R. Murrow transmitting station in Greenville,...
Author: Neale Bateman Despite a slow decline over the past two decades, the use of High Frequency (shortwave) bands for national and international radio broadcasting remains a uniquely effective and efficient medium for reaching millions of listeners with a single transmitter. The physics of why shortwave transmissions...
Last Friday the first group of 30 engineering professionals of Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) successfully completed their 5-day training on Digital Radio Migration (DRM) technology, becoming the “torch bearers for implementation of the digitisation project” (according to a PBC press release). This was a week-long workshop...
Fraunhofer IIS and NXP Semiconductors, two key members of the DRM Consortium, announced that Fraunhofer's comprehensive generations of audio codecs will be incorporated into NXP's multimedia system solutions, raising the bar for home entertainment products. Read more...
