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...
The Pakistan Broadcasting Academy kicks off a week of workshops - 9-13 March, in Islamabad, on DRM digital radio migration. The workshops will provide training for engineers from the public broadcaster Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation with engineers from the private sector also invited. The Federal...
A DRM awareness campaign has started on the national highway 16 in India targeting drivers from Chennai, Bengaluru, Kolkata and other places towards Visakhapatnam/Srikakulam districts. With more than 2 million cars on the roads with DRM receivers, the places selected for DRM awareness programme are...
Press Release The DRM Consortium highlighted its recent achievements under the overarching theme “DRM for India - Smart Radio for ALL” at the 26th edition of the international BES (Broadcast Engineering Society – www.besindia.co.in) conference and exhibition (BES EXPO 2020) on Broadcast & Media Technology, in...
Major announcements from AIR and Indian receiver/automotive manufacturers, moving to joint launch of DRM digital radio services to the public On Wednesday 12th February, the Indian public broadcaster Prasar Bharati organised a DRMStakeholders’ meeting in New Delhi. CEO Prasar Bharati and Member Finance of Prasar Bharati board...
