Question Is the firmware for Emergency Warnings used in DRM capable of working in other standards, as well? (Malaysian expert) Answer The emergency warning functionality

Digital Radio Mondiale™ (DRM) endorses the International Broadcast Engineering Society of India (BES – www.besindia.co.in) in New Delhi in February. At the BES Conference and Exhibition, held again in person this year, after a break of three years, DRM Consortium will highlight its excellent benefits and recent achievements under the overarching theme “DRM Saves Lives and Keeps Radio in Business”. The conference and exhibition BES EXPO 2023 on Broadcast & Media Technology will be held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi 110002, India 16-18 February 2023.

Dr. Thamminana Krushna Rao, a DRM Digital Radio enthusiast in India, continued promotional campaigns of DRM in his country in the latter part of 2022.

Is it possible for a private station to use DRM?

  The excellence profile is part of the Radio World’s 2023 Source Book & Directory and can be found on page 16.

Dear Friends, Colleagues and Partners, It seems incredible that another year is coming to an end. In 2022 life has slowly returned to normal after

How was 2022 for DRM since the effects of previous hard years (lockdown, chipset scarcity, cut on energy and transmissions etc.) can still felt?

For the first time since 2019, key representatives of the DRM Consortium, a not-for-profit organisation with over 100 international members, made  full presentations in the Technical Committee meetings held on 26th and 27th Nov 2022, as part of the the ABU General Assembly 2022 held in New Delhi, India.

Here are some of the highlights of these presentations. One of the three was dedicated exclusively to receiver developments.

I see there are studies showing the energy saving for some standards. Is there something similar for DRM?

On December the 5th the ATU (Africa Telecommunications Union), in collaboration with AUB, ITU, and DRM and WorldDAB consortiums, conducted a 1-day online workshop attended by over 110 participants from most of the African countries. They were representing governments, regulators, public, commercial and community stations. The aim of the event was to promote DSB (Digital Sound Broadcasting which recommends the two major open standards: DRM and DAB+) in Africa.

As part of a DRM Consortium distance learning project promoted by several of its key members and industry partners, BBC and Encompass have been transmitting

Your literature on drm.org mentions that DRM also works in band III. Is this possible?

The DRM Consortium will be well represented at the 59th ABU General Assembly and Associated Meetings, to be hosted by India’s public broadcaster, Prasar Bharati,

For more than a year Dr Thamminana Krushna Rao has organised extensive presentations and demonstrations at big car showrooms all over India where more than

The latest version of the document (mrr.drm.org) describes the DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) receiver characteristics for consumer equipment intended for terrestrial reception operating in the

Encompass Digital Media ran a one-off transmission from its site in Woofferton, UK, on Friday 4th of November. This electronic music broadcast targeted the whole

Encompass Digital Media will be running a one-off transmission from its site in Woofferton, UK, on Friday 4th of November. This electronic music broadcast will

This technology event was jointly organised by the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in Tunis on 18 and 19 October 2022. The DRM Consortium was invited to participate and present the strategies for taking up and implementing FM band DRM digital radio services.