Following my most recent update about the intended digital radio switchover, there was an interesting and pertinent article in today’s Guardian on the subject – see http://tinyurl.com/guardian-digital.
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With thanks to Adam Findlay of Wave 102 who sent me information about a new House of Lords report released yesterday, having had the opportunity today to read this, it is good that it emphasises the need for greater clarity in the digital radio upgrade plan, and it also highlights public confusion and industry uncertainty, [...]
At the end of January, I raised concerns about the future of local radio in the digital age. I wrote to Broadcasting Minister Sion Simon MP on the matter. I have now received the following response : “Dear Councillor Macpherson, Thank you for your email of 31 January to Sion Simon expressing the concerns of [...]
I recently reported feedback from Digital Radio UK recently about my concerns regarding proposed the digital radio switchover. I have been speaking with Adam Findlay, Managing Director of Wave 102 in Dundee (and Original 106 in the Grampian region) and Adam has responded to Digital Radio UK as follows : Councillor Macpherson has passed me [...]
No surgeries today because of the school holidays but very busy with constituents’ issues. Tonight’s “Evening Telegraph” featured the feedback I recently received from Digital Radio UK about the proposed digital radio switchover. See http://tiny.cc/digitalintele. At tonight’s City Council Development Quality Committee, I moved refusal of a retrospective application in Minto Place that had been [...]
Following my recent comments about the planned switchover to digital radio, I have received a letter today from Digital Radio UK that I reproduce below. Digital Radio UK is an organisation which represents the interests of the digital radio industry including the BBC, commercial radio companies and transmission network operator, Arqiva : “Dear Councillor Macpherson [...]
Monday activities …
Posted: February 1, 2010 in Blackness Primary School, Digital Radio, Dundee College, Harris Academy, Mitchell Street, River Crescent, Wave 102Apart from a busy day with the ‘day job’, I held two surgeries late this afternoon at the Mitchell Street Centre and Harris Academy. I was interviewed on Wave 102′s “Dundee Tonight” at 6pm about waiting list concerns at Dundee College and other further education colleges across Scotland. This evening, I spoke with the Blackness [...]
With the recent introduction of the Westminster Government’s Digital Economy Bill in parliament, I have concerns at the government’s handling of the future of radio, particularly that, when radio follows television in moving to digital-only transmission (DAB) by around 2015, many people may lose out in receiving radio reception and many local stations may not [...]
News on Friday from the BBC that “Radio ‘could go digital in 2017′” indicated that : “Radio listeners could have just nine years to switch to digital sets, a government-backed report has said. The Digital Radio Working Group (DRWG) says that by 2015, less than half of all radio listening could be via traditional FM [...]
