Beyond the Crystal Set

A recent conference in Europe involving a group of academics and more than 40 media experts discussing the future for Radio. How people listen to the radio in 2015? Participants came from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland and the UK.A detailed report on this conference can be found on Mike Mullane’s blog Multimedia meets Radio.

The interviewees told the DRACE (Digital Radio Cultures in Europe) group that by 2015 most Europeans would have digital terrestrial radio. The DRACE report says DAB will be a strong option in the UK and Denmark, but supplemented with Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) and DMB.

However, those interviewed stress that DAB coverage patterns do not match the needs of commercial or community stations, for whom DAB is “an expensive and uneconomic system.”