Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Fred Waterer, who shares the following post from James Cridland’s blog and notes:
Overseas listeners could listen to BBC Domestic broadcasts, then they couldn’t, then they might be able to and then they might be able to for a fee and then who knows….
https://james.cridland.net/blog/2025/bbc-radio-overseas-what-now/
The ABC and SBS transmit in all capital cities and the Gold Coast Qld the following programs on a single DAB+ transmitter per site:
ABC (All of these programs simulcasts in Darwin and Gold Coast are on FM)
Classics simulcast on FM
Newsradio simulcast on AM
Radio National simulcast on AM Darwin AM.
ABC Local radio simulcast on AM
Triple J
Country
Jaz
Kids Listen
Sport
Double J
triple J Unearthed
SBS
SBS 1 simulcast on FM
Arabic
Chill
PopAsia
SBS2
South Asian
These Government funded broadcasters have been convinced by the BBC’s CEO that broadcasters should transfer to an online model. The ABC/SBS constantly push listening on phones but not DAB+. DAB+ is now installed in most new cars since 2020 and can give the cheapest coverage to broadcasters and do not make listeners pay to convey the program from the broadcaster to their ears.
SBS does not pay for ratings, the high cost of AM broadcasting
> These Government funded broadcasters have been convinced by the BBC’s CEO that broadcasters should transfer to an online model.
So how exactly they are doing it? When did the conversion of ABC or SBS to an online model start? How many terrestrial transmitters of ABC or SBS have been closed since then?
> SBS does not pay for ratings, the high cost of AM broadcasting
Am I the only one having problems understanding this sentence? What kind of ratings are being referred to here? How does it relate to the rest of the comment? Or was this sentence just cut in a half accidentally?
Sad. Too sad.
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