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DAB Digital Radio in Ireland

Posted on Sunday, July 20th, 2008 at 3:53pm. #

Irish Times 10July2008

From Ireland comes this interesting piece in the Irish Times, from the 10th July (I’ve had it since then, but haven’t posted it until today to give the Irish Times time to earn from their content). Click the image above to go straight to a readable version.

“Agree on technology – compete on content” was my theme when the journalist called me. My one quote was, therefore, “state radio and commercial radio has to work together to make DAB work.” (I didn’t use the phrase ‘State Radio’, since the BBC certainly isn’t run by the government, but the point still stands).

Good to see my friend Dusty Rhodes from Digital Audio Productions given a lot of quotes. Dusty’s Digital Radio Ltd website is a good one for his view on DAB Digital Radio in Ireland.

I speak at the BCI, Ireland’s answer to Ofcom, in September.

5 comments

Michael Walsh
commenting at July 20th, 2008 at 9:46pm

The Irish Times has taken down it’s paywall – the article is online here.

Brian Greene
commenting at July 21st, 2008 at 3:41pm

the article is online here http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2008/0710/1215537706194.html

I’m no fan of DAB anymore, in the 1990′s ireland turned its back on eureka 147 and now wants to adopt it 18 years too late. Is it legal to adopt 18 year olds ?

Dusty’s Mocha in cars! via an IP now via mobile & getting into cars faster than DAB is IP Radio. So spot on Dusty, Mocha is streamed, just not sure the codec (WMA?) is most suitable to N95 or iPhone.

Alan Phillips
commenting at July 21st, 2008 at 10:01pm

The article says “In Britain [...] consumers have bought 12 million Dab radio sets”. Wow; does the DRDB know?

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