DAB: the future of radio? The development of digital radio in four European countries

Lax, Stephen; Ala-Fossi, Marko; Jauert, Per; Shaw, Helen

doi:10.1177/0163443707086858

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“…Thus, one form of digital radio service allows people to listen to the radio via their television set. The second form of service allows people to listen to radio streams online (Lax, et al, 2010).…”

Section: The Rise Of Digital Technologymentioning

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The Development of Digital Technology in Radio Industry

Zhang¹

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Economy, Management, Law and Education (EMLE 2016)

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Abstract-This paper has explored the rise of digital radio broadcasting services and has discussed how these new DAB services have been integrated into the domain of traditional broadcasting and the wider media industry. And this study delineated how the broadcaster and listener have changed their roles in the digitization process. And discuss the fact that Internet radio services have broadened the scope of radio as a medium and provided new ways for listeners to access their favourite content and explore new possibilities.

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Section: The Rise Of Digital Technologymentioning

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The Development of Digital Technology in Radio Industry

Zhang¹

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Economy, Management, Law and Education (EMLE 2016)

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“…In the late 1980s, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) began to explore options which might provide greater carrying capacity. The development of the original DAB standard, Eureka-147 DAB (ETSI, 1997), 5 the first of what have now become several viable digital broadcasting transmission standards, began in 1987, with the involvement of broadcasters and equipment manufacturers (Lax et al, 2008).…”

Section: The Digital Broadcasting Domainmentioning

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Digital broadcasting – Challenges and opportunities for European community radio broadcasters

Hallett

Hintz²

2010

Telematics and Informatics

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“…For the same reasons, the DAB system in its original form had not been adopted in Ireland by 2005 except for strictly experimental use. 1 (Lax et al 2008;O'Neill 2007) Despite the early support and great hopes for international success (Rudin 2006, p.165) in practice the EU has not been very active or generous in supporting the development of DAB or digital radio (Lembke 2003). Radio, with smaller advertising markets and more complicated national structures, has never played as significant a role in EU polices as television, and issues concerning digitalization have not been an exception to this rule.…”

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“…The project was based on two earlier studies within the Digital Radio Cultures in Europe research group (DRACE): a comparative study of the development of DAB radio in the UK, Ireland, Denmark and Finland (Lax et al 2008;Ala-Fossi & Jauert 2006) and a separate study of DAB in Canada (O'Neill 2007). The first stage of the present study was to map all the available -both existing and emerging -technologies for delivering audio (i.e.…”

Section: Searching For the Digital Future(s) Of Radiomentioning

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“…The most obvious reasons for this emphasisalso identified by some of the respondents-are the Finnish national technology policy and the involvement of Nokia in the development of DVB-H (Lax et al 2008). The lack of a shared vision about digital broadcasting was also reflected in the Irish interviews, where the only system seen as an option by more than one respondent was DRM.…”

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The Future of Radio is Still Digital—But Which One? Expert Perspectives and Future Scenarios for Radio Media in 2015

Ala-Fossi

Lax

O’Neill³

et al. 2008

Journal of Radio & Audio Media

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The future of radio is now much less obvious and clear than it appeared ten years ago. Instead of a transition from analog to digital audio broadcasting (DAB), there is a selection alternative technological options for digital audio delivery.This article studies how 43 people in key positions related to the radio industry in four European countries and Canada view the future of radio and which delivery technologies they consider will be most successful. In addition, it analyses the motives and reasons for why certain technologies are seen as more promising. Finally, it presents different future scenarios for radio media. The Future of Radio is Still Digital 1The development of digital audio broadcasting (DAB) began during the late 1980s in an EU-supported Eureka 147 project, originally intended to give the European electronics industry a competitive advantage through the digitalization of radio (Rudin 2006;Lax 2003).When DAB was first introduced in 1995, there was an optimistic and perhaps even deterministic expectation that the superior new digital radio system would replace analog FM radio in a relatively short and smooth transition from analog to digital audio broadcasting (O'Leary 1993;Kozamernik 1995;Mykkänen 1995). The first set-back came in the 1990s, when the USA and Japan decided to develop separate digital radio systems to protect their own national industries (Ala-Fossi & Stavitsky 2003) and DAB lost the chance of becoming a truly worldwide system for digital radio. However, with the support of the World DAB organization and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), it was widely adopted in Europe and altogether in 28 countries around the world within 10 years of its introduction (World DAB 2005). But even in those countries where DAB was implemented, the adoption rate of the new radio system was low:consumers were not interested in buying new, rather expensive digital receivers as eagerly as expected and the early phase of the classic S-shaped diffusion curve (Rogers 2003) was much less steep than anticipated. Despite the promises of new features, more choice and better (CDquality) sound, the benefits of DAB radio over FM radio were not obvious to everybody (Lax 2003).The basic design of DAB fits better together with large, nationwide broadcasting systems and it has been more successful in countries with strong public service radio organizations (Rudin 1999;Hendy 2000). However, this has not always been the case. According to our studies of the development of digital radio in Europe and Canada, the varied success of DAB has been highly dependent on different policy decisions made by national governments and broadcasters. It seems that where the government and the public service broadcaster have both The Future of Radio is Still Digital 2 been committed to DAB, as in the UK and Denmark, it has been possible also to pull the commercial radio sector in with economic incentives or regulation -or both. Only in these conditions has the consumer interest in DAB radio developed favourably. This is why ...

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DAB: the future of radio? The development of digital radio in four European countries

Cited by 28 publications

References 4 publications

The Development of Digital Technology in Radio Industry

The Development of Digital Technology in Radio Industry

Digital broadcasting – Challenges and opportunities for European community radio broadcasters

The Future of Radio is Still Digital—But Which One? Expert Perspectives and Future Scenarios for Radio Media in 2015

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