{"id":17264,"date":"2016-02-06T09:53:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T13:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=17264"},"modified":"2016-02-06T09:53:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T13:53:49","slug":"sweden-again-rejects-dab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/sweden-again-rejects-dab\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden (Again) Rejects DAB"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Degen-DE27\"Digital Radio FM Europe blog<\/a> is reporting Sweden wants to keep FM radio:<\/p>\n

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Parliament Confirms Rejection of DAB Radio in Sweden [updated]<\/h3>\n

Public radio continues on FM and will push for extending its remit to include digital radio online.<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n
The Constitutional Standing Committee (KU) in Riksdagen <\/i>(the Parliament) has processed the government missive regarding the 2015 National Audit review of\u00a0digital radio in which the proposal for a\u00a0transition from FM to DAB+ in 2017-2022 was rejected. After a short debate and without objection from any of the eight political parties Riksdagen today appended the missive to the protocol. This marks the end of 24 years of efforts to replace FM with DAB in Sweden.<\/div>\n
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Already in June 2015 the Government took the decision to reject the proposal for a\u00a0digital transition for terrestrial radio. In November this was piggy-backed in the\u00a0budget proposal to the Parliament.<\/div>\n
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This vote in the committee did not come as a big surprise as there has been an increasing skepticism in most parties against closing the FM band. A year ago in the\u00a0consultation round the proposal was put into question or rejected by most\u00a0qualified state institutions as PTS the telecom authority,\u00a0KTH Royal Institute Of Technology, the\u00a0Armed Forces, the Transport Agency and the\u00a0Competition Authority <\/i>as well as organizations as\u00a0Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences,\u00a0Ericsson and the Community Radio Assn.<\/i><\/div>\n
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KU has been listening to the arguments for DAB+ from the two commercial networks and the public radio Sveriges Radio<\/i> (SR) as well as critical comments by the Public Service Council.<\/i>\u00a0KU notes that the Government in its missive says that it cannot be ruled out that the question of digitalization of terrestrial radio will be on a future agenda. KU is satisfied with the Government plan to observe international developments. However, there was no other comments by the committee other than the missive should be appended to the protocol.<\/div>\n
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This marks the end of 24 year period of futile efforts to introduce the DAB technology in Sweden. SR started testing DAB in Stockholm continuous since 1992 and officially went on air 1995 the same year as BBC introduced DAB in the UK. \u00a02005 DAB was rejected for the first time by the social democratic government. Program have been broadcast in an inofficial mode via DAB and DAB+ transmitter in four major cities but few listeners are reported.<\/div>\n
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Today up to a third of all listening on the public radio channels are on-line. This is much due to the high smartphone usage on 3G\/4G LTE networks in Sweden. While forced to leave the DAB agenda SR will now request that the politicians will include its Internet activities in the next public service remit 2018.<\/div>\n
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The two commercial radio networks Bauer and MTG still hold licenses to start DAB+ broadcasting later this year. But they are not expected to go DAB alone without having the public radio onboard. 60 % of the radio audience in Sweden is listening to SR. In the consultation round the DAB proposal was rejected by the community radio organisations.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Robert Gulley, AK3Q,\u00a0is the author of this post and a regular contributor<\/a> to the SWLing Post. Robert also blogs<\/em>\u00a0at All Things Radio<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Digital Radio FM Europe blog is reporting Sweden wants to keep FM radio: Parliament Confirms Rejection of DAB Radio in Sweden [updated] Public radio continues on FM and will push for extending its remit to include digital radio online. 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