And it is official. Norway will switch off FM in 2017, as the first country in the world. The government, represented by the Minister of...

The radio listening figures for the last three months made Ole Jørgen Torvmark a happy man. Over 50% of Norwegians now listen to digital...

No, you didn’t misread. And that is for poorer coverage too, according to Teknisk vekeblad. We are not looking at a minor difference, we...

Norway will switch off FM as the first country in the world in January 2017. Digital Radio Norway is a non-profit organization that...

What is seemingly the best reason to delay a decisions? By refering to something better, often a technology, that is in the process of...

Sweden is one of the countries that is now planning for an FM switch-off. Because FM is way passed its due date. But also because the...

Sometimes even a non-scientist like me feel like doing some experimentation. To find out how long a mobile phone battery will last if I...

DAB is cheap enough to be used even by a small local radio station using only one transmitter, as shown before. That still doesn’t mean...

Digital radio is very expensive. Or at least so we are usually told by wannabe experts. I have previously shown that is not the case. To...

Which country will be the first to switch off FM? Norway has long been in the lead. Apparantly. It’s been a little over two years since...

Swedish Minister of Culture, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, today announced that Sweden have joined Norway and Denmark in setting a date for...

When do you need information the most? In an emergency. The problem is only that your preferred means of communication is unlikely to...

The bombs in Boston shocked us all. More than anyone else, it shocked the people in Boston, especially those near the finish line or...

Neelie Kroes, the EU Commissioner for Digital Agenda and Vice-Presidents of the European Commission, spoke at the last meeting of Radio...

European Broadcasting Union recommends that European countries switch off FM. The announcement was made during EBU Digital Radio Summit...

This post relates to the license funding of Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and is therefore written in Norwegian. Stadig blussar...

DAB radios have been more expensive than FM radios, butthe gap is about to narrow. One reason has been the much lower production volume,...

A lot of people talk to me about digital radio. They know I work with media. Some seems to hate it, others are full of appraisal. But...

Digital radio is conquering new countries every year. Most of them (over 40) use digital radio’s de facto standard Eureka 147 (which...

UPDATE March 20, 2014: Name changed. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has joined forces with the BBC and Deutschlandradio to in a...