{"id":24717,"date":"2017-03-17T20:12:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T00:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24717"},"modified":"2017-03-17T20:12:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T00:12:46","slug":"all-india-radio-investing-heavily-in-drm-tranmitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/all-india-radio-investing-heavily-in-drm-tranmitters\/","title":{"rendered":"All India Radio investing heavily in DRM tranmitters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All India Radio (AIR) Headquarters in Dehli, India. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Pradip, who shares the following story from Radio and Music Biz online<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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AIR has acquired 37 DRM transmitters, in talks to get cheaper radio sets<\/h2>\n

NEW DELHI: All India Radio (AIR) has introduced digital radio technology in the AIR Network by installing new state of the art Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Technology transmitters by replacing old outlived 37 Medium Wave\/ Short Wave transmitters.<\/p>\n

Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore told Parliament however that the provisions contained in Policy Guidelines on expansion of FM Radio broadcasting services through private agencies (Phase-III) do not provide for private FM broadcasters to adopt digital radio technology.<\/p>\n

He said Digital Radio allows significant improvements in service reliability, audio quality, more radio services and higher efficiency.<\/p>\n

The new AIR transmitters include 35 new state of art technology Medium Wave (MW)\/ DRM transmitters as a replacement of old technology valve based MW transmitters. Additionally, two new state of the art technology Short Wave (SW) DRM transmitters have been approved for installation as a replacement of old SW transmitters.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Continue reading at RadioAndMusic.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Pradip, who shares the following story from Radio and Music Biz online: AIR has acquired 37 DRM transmitters, in talks to get cheaper radio sets NEW DELHI: All India Radio (AIR) has introduced digital radio technology in the AIR Network by installing new state of the art Digital Radio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[373,1114,54,3781,433,3,43],"tags":[52,53,2764],"class_list":["post-24717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-digital-modes","category-drm","category-fm","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-air","tag-all-india-radio","tag-all-india-radio-drm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6qF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24916,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/air-launching-phase-ii-of-drm-conversion\/","url_meta":{"origin":24717,"position":0},"title":"AIR launching Phase II of DRM conversion","author":"Thomas","date":"March 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio Mag via Dennis Dura) AIR Launching DRM Conversion, Phase II NEW DELHI \u2014 All India Radio was recently congratulated by India\u2019s Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shri Venkaiah Naidu for having completed phase I of the national DRM digital radio roll-out in India. 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