{"id":36694,"date":"2019-03-27T08:01:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T12:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36694"},"modified":"2019-03-27T08:01:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T12:01:02","slug":"radio-frances-digital-ambitions-and-am-radio-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/radio-frances-digital-ambitions-and-am-radio-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio France’s digital ambitions and AM radio in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Jason Whiteley, who writes:<\/p>\n

Hi Thomas,<\/p>\n

[T]here is a really interesting interview with Radio France here around their DAB+ expansion and the possible shut down of FM in France later [click here to read<\/a>].<\/p>\n

I used Google Translate to bring it to English.<\/p>\n

[Y]ou might also choose to link to this article about AM radio being dead in Europe (written in 2015):<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.radioinfo.com.au\/news\/am-radio-dead-europe<\/a><\/p>\n

The article is bang on though – AM radio is still very strong and thriving in Australia & the USA. Here in Australia at least, it’s DAB that has a minimal audience compared to traditional AM broadcast.<\/p>\n

I just found both of these articles very interesting reading and thought you might like to put them up.<\/p>\n

Have a great day,
\nJason<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thank you very much for sharing these articles, Jason! Earlier today<\/a>, we posted a note about digital AM here in the States (AM HD). There is a movement to increase this offering, but for true market penetration it would require car radios that can receive AM HD. Many a DXer dislikes AM HD because the digital signals are (unlike DAB+) inserted between analog signals. These band crowding sometimes causes interference to adjacent analog stations and certainly affects mediumwave DXing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jason Whiteley, who writes: Hi Thomas, [T]here is a really interesting interview with Radio France here around their DAB+ expansion and the possible shut down of FM in France later [click here to read]. I used Google Translate to bring it to English. [Y]ou might also choose to link […]<\/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":[373,56,5517,1114,3781,433,3],"tags":[887,2478,4025,6301,4024],"class_list":["post-36694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-broadcasters","category-digital-audio-broadcasting","category-digital-modes","category-fm","category-mediumwave","category-news","tag-australia","tag-dab","tag-france-inter","tag-jason-whiteley","tag-radio-france"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9xQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27304,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/richards-initial-impressions-of-the-sony-xdr-s41d-fmdab-receiver\/","url_meta":{"origin":36694,"position":0},"title":"Richard’s initial impressions of the Sony XDR-S41D FM\/DAB receiver","author":"Thomas","date":"July 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley, who recently attended a conference in Paris and picked up a\u00a0Sony XDR-S41D. 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