The saying “the proof of the pudding is in the eating” proved to be true during the practical DRM workshop held in Centurion outside Pretoria, South Africa, in October. Key stakeholders and media in Southern Africa received hands-on demonstrations of the potential of the DRM...
The ABU Technical Committee met on 24th and 25th October. Dr. Amal Punchihewa, ABU Technology Director, reports: Radio and television developments over the last year were presented and discussed, generating much interest in technical innovations associated with UHDTV. Both NHK (Japan) and KBS (Korea) presented updates...
Report by: Ruxandra Obreja (DRM Consortium Chairman) The ABU General Assembly in Macau celebrated 50 years of activity of the world’s largest broadcasting union. It was attended by a number of senior Consortium representatives: Lindsay Cornell (BBC), Alexander Zink (Frauenhofer IIS) and myself - aiming to...
(Report by Jose Jacob, (VU2JOS), National Institute of Amateur Radio) Around 800 people attended Hamfest India, the annual gathering of amateur radio and short wave enthusiasts from all over India. Ajaya Gupta (VU2DED), and Suresh Varma, (VU2EOJ) from Mumbai gave a lively presentation, introducing participants to the...
Press Release For Immediate Release: Contact: pressoffice@drm.org DRM Enterprise Award 2014 Winner announced The Digital Radio Mondiale Consortium is delighted to announce that the recipient of their first DRM Enterprise Award is to the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC). The award conferred in association with the Commonwealth...
The German DRM Platform was established in 2004 with the aim to support the introduction of the digital radio standard Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) in Germany on long wave, medium wave and short wave (known now as DRM30). Over the years the focus of the...
The Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Consortium has signed this week the EBU Smart Radio Memorandum of Understanding. The Memorandum represents an agreement between leading European Public Service and Commercial Broadcasters (like BBC, Deutschlandradio, Germany, public broadcasters from Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Switzerland etc.). Its...
The DRM Consortium and the Southern Africa Platform held a workshop in Pretoria last week. During the workshop, transmission of Radio Pulpit’s DRM trial was heard by the delegates. Click here to Listen to the transmission....
The DRM Consortium has submitted posts to the online forum set up by the office of the Prime Minister of India The full DRM text posted on the forum reads as follows: Congratulations on the decision and effort of All India Radio to digitise its medium...
The launch of the first Indian-designed receiver is still receiving considerable media attention and the blogsphere: http://www.radioworld.com/article/drm-launches-india-receiver/272493 Radio and Music reports on the DRM receiver designed in India DRM launches first India-produced receiver Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Announces at IBC 2014 First DRM Receiver produced in India http://www.htforum.com/vb/threads/63916-E-sobre-a-r%C3%A1dio-digital?p=5826824 https://twitter.com/JamesCridland/status/511575719106052096 http://media.info/radio/news/first-drm-am-model-receiver-produced-in-india-unveiled-at-ibc-2014 http://asiaradiotoday.com/2014/09/drm-launches-first-india-produced-receiver/ http://www.c2meworld.com/management/drm-launches-india-receiver/ BLOGS: http://airddfamily.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/digital-radio-mondiale-drm-announces-at.html http://alokeshgupta.blogspot.co.uk/ and http://www.socialbuckets.com/bucket/search/site/web/99421/save_51181 http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=74836050 http://radiolawendel.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/ibc-2014-spunta-una-nuova-radio-drm.html ...
