{"id":13081,"date":"2015-04-29T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T13:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13081"},"modified":"2015-04-29T09:30:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T13:30:59","slug":"norway-fm-radio-stations-were-not-dead-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/norway-fm-radio-stations-were-not-dead-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway FM Radio stations: &#8220;We&#8217;re not dead yet.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Norway-Flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13082\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Norway-Flag.jpg\" alt=\"Norway-Flag\" width=\"714\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Norway-Flag.jpg 714w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Norway-Flag-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Bill Patalon, for sharing the following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioworld.com\/article\/fm-radio-not-%E2%80%94-yet-%E2%80%94-dead-in-norway-says-nlf%C2%A0\/275701\" target=\"_blank\">via RadioWorld online<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>FM Radio Not \u2014 Yet \u2014 Dead in Norway, Says NLF <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week it was reported that Norway would be switching off all FM radio broadcasts as early as 2017. According to the Norsk Lokalradio Forbund, the Norwegian Local Radio Association, however, only 23 local radio stations in Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Stavanger, as well as major national broadcasters, are set to make the transition from analog to digital DAB broadcast anytime soon, while 200 local stations outside the cities will continue to broadcast in analog for the near future[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioworld.com\/article\/fm-radio-not-%E2%80%94-yet-%E2%80%94-dead-in-norway-says-nlf%C2%A0\/275701#sthash.Lf1UZoR2.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article\u00a0at RadioWorld online&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Bill Patalon, for sharing the following via RadioWorld online: FM Radio Not \u2014 Yet \u2014 Dead in Norway, Says NLF Last week it was reported that Norway would be switching off all FM radio broadcasts as early as 2017. According to the Norsk Lokalradio Forbund, the Norwegian Local Radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,3781,3],"tags":[1584,1384,2367,3800,3801],"class_list":["post-13081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-fm","category-news","tag-fm","tag-fm-radio","tag-norway","tag-norway-fm-radio","tag-radioworld"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3oZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12995,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/norway-first-country-to-shut-down-fm-analog-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":13081,"position":0},"title":"Norway: first country to shut down FM analog radio","author":"Thomas","date":"April 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio.no) NORWAY TO SWITCH OFF FM IN 2017 Within two years from now, the shutdown of national FM-networks begins in Norway. The switchover will begin in the North and will be implemented region by region. Thursday, the Ministry of Culture announced a national FM-switch off, to complete the transition\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Digital Modes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Digital Modes","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/digital-modes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The City Hall (Radhus) in Oslo, Norway.  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The country\u2019s most northern regions and the Svalbard\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Digitech-AR1780-FM-Mono-1024x570.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Digitech-AR1780-FM-Mono-1024x570.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Digitech-AR1780-FM-Mono-1024x570.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":44138,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/uk-analog-commercial-broadcasters-given-permission-to-go-digital-at-their-discretion\/","url_meta":{"origin":13081,"position":2},"title":"UK analog commercial broadcasters given permission to go digital at their discretion","author":"Thomas","date":"July 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Kris Partridge, who shares the following article that notes the UK will not follow a Norway-style digital switch-off.\u00a0Rather, broadcasters will be allowed to switch off individual AM (and eventually FM) transmitters once they determine it is no longer a cost-effective strategy. 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