Why the digital radio switch over is a pipe dream
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At a speech yesterday at the Intellect Consumer Electronics Conference, the UK’s culture minister, Ed Vaizey said that the coalition Government would continue the policy of the Labour Government and ‘aspire’ to have the UK’s FM frequencies ‘switched off’ by 2015. The plan is for all national and regional radio stations to be broadcast exclusively on digital platforms, while FM would be used for ‘ultra-local’...
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