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[Bill Shultz]

Interesting article.

I have done so much for so long with so little that I am now able to do
anything with nothing.   - Jim Shorts
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Norway says “Goodbye, FM”
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Posted: 20 Apr 2015 05:00 AM PDT

Norway will switch off its national FM networks in 2017, according to
the Ministry
of Culture announcement
<http://radio.no/2015/04/norway-to-switch-off-fm-in-2017/>.  In the place
of analog FM will be DAB.  The aim is to have the migration to DAB
completed by December of 2017.  According to the article, approximately 54
percent of households and 20 percent of automobiles have DAB radios.  What
is left unsaid is the 46 percent of households and 80 percent of
automobiles that do not have DAB capable receivers.

I am sure that in the ensuing year and a half to two years, those numbers
will change somewhat.  It still seems to me that there will be many people
who will likely not have a DAB radio in their car before the analog switch
off.

Judging by the comments on the Slash dot
<http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/04/18/2036239/norway-will-switch-off-fm-radio-in-2017>
story, many are not happy with this decision.  Perhaps the most telling
comment is this:

This is just Norway going off on its own crusade urged on by commercial
interests of 10+ new channels, fuck whether it makes sense to throw out
millions of radios… I expect this to lead to a massive interest in building
out 3G/4G coverage as ex-FMers give DAB the middle finger.

Yup, that sounds about right.

I don’t know much about radio in Norway, but it if is anything like radio
here, good programming trumps technical do-dads and and fancy gimmickry.
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