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Old January 24th 08, 03:20 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
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Default FM Switchoff

"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:49:35 -0000, "Doki" wrote:

Does anyone know much about this? Is anyone kicking up a stink yet? If
they
ever get round to it, I'll have umpteen useless radios (two or three in
various sheds, one in every car, two attached to the hifis etc.), which is
rather worse than a couple of tellys requiring adaptor boxes. I really
can't
see people being pleased at having to fork out for new car radios at £100
a
pop. Or the pretty much sure to happen increase of desirable to DAB radios
to car theives...


Has it even been scheduled? I didn't think there was a plan yet for FM
switchoff - unlike UHF TV, of course. Car radios are the problem -
they aren't as easily modded or replaced as TVs.

d

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I certainly haven't heard of any plans to switch off FM. I can't see the
commercial stations accepting this until it can be proved that the digital
audience is far bigger than the analogue FM audience. I would guess the
analogue listener hours would have to be below 10% of the digital listener
hours before they would even consider it. They wouldn't tolerate even a
temporary drop in listener figures.

S.


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