The strategy presentation was the hardest bit of my preparation for the General Assembly. I had chats with colleagues and contacts and on my daily walk across Waterloo Bridge over the Thames I was mulling some of these ideas over. It was clear that first...
The DRM Consortium will use its stronger than ever presence at NAB 2012 to showcase the developments and potential of the DRM standard, now fully recommended by ITU for both AM (DRM30) and VHF (DRM+). In partnership with key Consortium members, DRM will present the full...
Attending the DRM General Assembly for the first time I was wondering what to expect. I had heard about the efforts made to support manufacturers to produce DRM receivers and chipsets. What was the outcome? When could we expect first results? This is of great interest...
The Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Consortium has set its strategy for the next two years at the General Assembly held in Winnersh, UK on 28 - 29th March 2012 and elected its new governing bodies. The Consortium has inducted two new members to its Steering Board, both...
Fitting in with the more practical approach to new platforms, as advocated by the organisers, the DRM Workshop organised immediately after the opening in the afternoon of 7th March was a step by step presentation of how to set up a chain that will take...
More than 100 delegates attended the Digital Radio Summit Day, with the highlights including a lively debate on the future direction of digital radio – both broadcast and broadband are key it seems. During one of the key sessions Ruxandra Obreja, DRM Chair, gave an...
Under its title "Decision Time for Stakeholders" this year's edition of the Digital Broadcasting Symposium organised by ABU in Kuala Lumpur ( 6-9th March 2012) has proved to be as well attended and full of good surprises as in the previous seven years. The opening...
Following the announcement by the Indian government in the spring of 2010 that DRM is to be rolled out across India, leading members of the DRM Consortium, the DRM chair and vice-chair, with the chair and vice-chair of the Technical committee as well as the...
The 18th Annual Broadcast Engineering Society of India (BES) international conference and exhibition concluded in New Delhi today (11-13th Feb 2012). All India Radio’s (AIR) current digitalization programme was discussed, by speakers during the conference and by visitors at the exhibition. According to AIR’s Additional...
The European Commission has said that the future of radio distribution will be multi-platform and public policy has to remain both neutral in terms of technological solutions and sufficiently flexible to adapt to future evolutions. This has emerged from the response of European Commission to...
