digital radio

[losingravity]

Can anyone tell me if this new digital radio thingamajig will mean that i have to get rid of my old radios.
I still use an old ghetto blaster as it has a fab sound.

[losingravity]

I was told they are changing over later this year, i listen to rock 106.1 fm .known as Manchester Rock Radio

[losingravity]

Thank You for your answer Zacsmaster

[losingravity]

Thank You for that link Zacsmaster

[Buenchico]

Zacsmaster wrote "There are no plans to stop broadcasting in FM . . .". Not so:

The Digital Radio Working Group was established by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport in November 2007. The group produced an interim report in June 2008. The principal recommendation of that report is that the migration of stations from FM to DAB (or to DAB+ and DAB-, see below) should commence between 2012 and 2015 and that all FM transmitters should be switched off by 2020.

The issue is complicated by the problem that DAB is 'old technology'. Very few countries have adopted it. Those European countries which are now switching to digital radio are using the better DAB+ and DAB- technologies. It's likely that the UK will have to adopt these technologies as well. That means that not only will FM radios become redundant but will so almost all current DAB sets (since hardly any of them can receive DAB+ or DAB- signals).

However, most media observers regard the 2020 switchover date as extremely optimistic. After all, the UK government entered into a European agreement to switch off all our analogue TV transmitters by 2001, so the current plans are running over 10 years behind the original schedule.

Chris