Comments on: Radio in Norway – more futuristic than you think http://james.cridland.net/blog/radio-in-norway-more-futuristic-than-you-think/ From a radio futurologist - where broadcast radio and new platforms collide. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:50:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mythbusters in San Francisco – the PPM - James Cridland http://james.cridland.net/blog/radio-in-norway-more-futuristic-than-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-37348 Mythbusters in San Francisco – the PPM - James Cridland Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:02:01 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/2007/06/01/radio-in-norway-more-futuristic-than-you-think/#comment-37348 [...] research in the more rural areas (and trust me, Canada has many of those). The same happens in Norway and Denmark. This keeps the cost down, and ensures the markets where the real money is – [...] [...] research in the more rural areas (and trust me, Canada has many of those). The same happens in Norway and Denmark. This keeps the cost down, and ensures the markets where the real money is – [...]

]]> By: Jarle http://james.cridland.net/blog/radio-in-norway-more-futuristic-than-you-think/comment-page-1/#comment-14176 Jarle Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:54:20 +0000 http://james.cridland.net/blog/2007/06/01/radio-in-norway-more-futuristic-than-you-think/#comment-14176 Happy to hear you enjoyed your visit to my home town. Local radio isn't featured on DAB yet (with one notable exception in the South of Norway). But it appears its just around the corner. What is interesting about Norway and DAB is that we have had the "pleasure" of heated arguments about DAB being an old and outdated technology courtesy of IKT-forum (an organization of IT businesses). Its really frustrating to hear people spout that DAB is outdated and should be put to sleep while not having any good suggestions as to what should take its place, and no understanding of the fact that it would leave us at zero and that it would probably take another decade before we had anything that could replace FM. FM is suffering because we have used up the FM-spectrum here - not because of all the stations, but because of all the mountains and wallies. The national broadcasters (NRK) main radio station on FM (P1) actually have to use 1176 transmitters to cover the nations 4 million citizens. Somehow the excellence of DAB in a country such as ours have been lost on some people. It really is frustrating. And lately NRK has been forced to keep its extra stations on the air on FM, even if they were always meant only to entice people into going over to DAB. The minister of culture actually instructed them to keep the FM-transmitters on. As far as I am concerned the cultural minister took away a means to get people to start converting to DAB that way. BTW: For those interested in Radio in Norway, there is a wonderful website over at: http://www.radioassistant.com/ - it features news about local, regional and national radio and is also a resource for those that work in radio. Keep up your great blog, I enjoy reading it tremendously! Happy to hear you enjoyed your visit to my home town. Local radio isn’t featured on DAB yet (with one notable exception in the South of Norway). But it appears its just around the corner.

What is interesting about Norway and DAB is that we have had the “pleasure” of heated arguments about DAB being an old and outdated technology courtesy of IKT-forum (an organization of IT businesses). Its really frustrating to hear people spout that DAB is outdated and should be put to sleep while not having any good suggestions as to what should take its place, and no understanding of the fact that it would leave us at zero and that it would probably take another decade before we had anything that could replace FM.

FM is suffering because we have used up the FM-spectrum here – not because of all the stations, but because of all the mountains and wallies. The national broadcasters (NRK) main radio station on FM (P1) actually have to use 1176 transmitters to cover the nations 4 million citizens.

Somehow the excellence of DAB in a country such as ours have been lost on some people. It really is frustrating. And lately NRK has been forced to keep its extra stations on the air on FM, even if they were always meant only to entice people into going over to DAB. The minister of culture actually instructed them to keep the FM-transmitters on. As far as I am concerned the cultural minister took away a means to get people to start converting to DAB that way.

BTW: For those interested in Radio in Norway, there is a wonderful website over at: http://www.radioassistant.com/ – it features news about local, regional and national radio and is also a resource for those that work in radio.

Keep up your great blog, I enjoy reading it tremendously!

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