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Gunnar Garfors
Apr 16, 20154 min read
Media: World’s first FM switch-off confirmed for 2017
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...
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Gunnar Garfors
Nov 5, 20141 min read
Media: All requirements for FM switch-off fulfilled
The radio listening figures for the last three months made Ole Jørgen Torvmark a happy man. Over 50% of Norwegians now listen to digital...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jul 3, 20142 min read
Media: LTE Uses 40 Times the Electricity of DAB+
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...
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Gunnar Garfors
Feb 28, 20142 min read
Retailers Should Stop Selling FM Radios
Norway will switch off FM as the first country in the world in January 2017. Digital Radio Norway is a non-profit organization that...
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Gunnar Garfors
Oct 10, 20136 min read
Media: “LTE Broadcast” – The Next Hyped Broadcasting Challenger
What is seemingly the best reason to delay a decisions? By refering to something better, often a technology, that is in the process of...
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Gunnar Garfors
Oct 3, 20131 min read
Would You Pay 115 Euro Per Year for Radio?
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...
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Gunnar Garfors
Aug 23, 20134 min read
Broadcasting 7 Times Greener Than Streaming
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...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jul 15, 20132 min read
DAB vs. FM Coverage Comparisons
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...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jul 12, 20133 min read
The Real Cost of Digital Radio
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...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jul 11, 20132 min read
The FM Bets Are On
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...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jun 19, 20132 min read
Sweden Joins FM Switch-Off Club
Swedish Minister of Culture, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, today announced that Sweden have joined Norway and Denmark in setting a date for...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jun 10, 20133 min read
Why Broadcasting is Needed in Emergencies
When do you need information the most? In an emergency. The problem is only that your preferred means of communication is unlikely to...
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Gunnar Garfors
Apr 18, 20133 min read
The Strengths of a One-Way Network
The bombs in Boston shocked us all. More than anyone else, it shocked the people in Boston, especially those near the finish line or...
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Gunnar Garfors
Mar 11, 20132 min read
Kroes Agrees, the Internet Won’t Solve Everything
Neelie Kroes, the EU Commissioner for Digital Agenda and Vice-Presidents of the European Commission, spoke at the last meeting of Radio...
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Gunnar Garfors
Feb 19, 20132 min read
EBU Recommends FM Switch Off
European Broadcasting Union recommends that European countries switch off FM. The announcement was made during EBU Digital Radio Summit...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jan 29, 20133 min read
Kverulantkampen om kringkastingsavgifta
This post relates to the license funding of Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and is therefore written in Norwegian. Stadig blussar...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jan 18, 20131 min read
Digital Radios Become Cheaper
DAB radios have been more expensive than FM radios, butthe gap is about to narrow. One reason has been the much lower production volume,...
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Gunnar Garfors
Dec 31, 20123 min read
A Digital Radio, the Best Christmas Present
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...
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Gunnar Garfors
Nov 20, 20122 min read
The Costly Business of DRM
Digital radio is conquering new countries every year. Most of them (over 40) use digital radio’s de facto standard Eureka 147 (which...
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Gunnar Garfors
Nov 14, 20123 min read
What the Hell is ‘Euro-Chip?’
UPDATE March 20, 2014: Name changed. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has joined forces with the BBC and Deutschlandradio to in a...
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