{"id":63574,"date":"2025-08-06T06:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63574"},"modified":"2025-08-06T06:13:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:13:45","slug":"china-chooses-drm-for-its-am-broadcast-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/china-chooses-drm-for-its-am-broadcast-future\/","title":{"rendered":"China Chooses DRM for Its AM Broadcast Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, David Iurescia, who shares this Radio World article,<\/a> which reports that China has officially adopted the Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) standard to modernize its AM radio bands.<\/p>\n

The plan includes technical guidelines for analog\/DRM simulcasting, requirements for provincial transmitters to deploy DRM systems, and a nationwide push for DRM-capable receivers in vehicles.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the announcement on Radio World.<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to read the DRM Consortium’s announcement.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares this Radio World article, which reports that China has officially adopted the Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) standard to modernize its AM radio bands. The plan includes technical guidelines for analog\/DRM simulcasting, requirements for provincial transmitters to deploy DRM systems, and a nationwide push for DRM-capable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[54,3],"tags":[146,980,4083],"class_list":["post-63574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drm","category-news","tag-china","tag-digital-radio-mondiale","tag-drm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gxo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36041,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/radio-world-china-makes-its-drm-move\/","url_meta":{"origin":63574,"position":0},"title":"Radio World: “China Makes Its DRM Move”","author":"Thomas","date":"February 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio World via Michael Bird) The nation becomes world\u2019s leading Digital Radio Mondiale shortwave broadcaster in just one year Hans Johnson BEIJING \u2014 It appears as if China has jumped into Digital Radio Mondiale shortwave broadcasting with both feet. 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