tony sayer wrote:
I really wouldn't worry about AM or FM being shut down for a long time
yet. What is far more likely to happen is that the current sorry mess
that is DAB (Dead And Buried) will eventually give way to DAB + using a
much better CODEC .. but then again all these transmission systems have
to be paid for and they aren't cheap hence the recent shut down by GCap
media of the Jazz and Planet rock and core none of which were making any
money.

They, GCap, would pull out of DAB as a duplicate of their FM services if
they could but the transmission contracts prevent that.

DAB I expect will be supported more by the BBC then the commercial
broadcasters but I wouldn't loose any sleep over any FM shutdown...

Thanks for the confimation, Tony. Yes, I read about a couple of
stations pulling out of DAB a couple of weeks ago and the possible
implications of that. I didn't realise that it meant that it made it
more certain that FM would be lasting beyond the the "great digital
change-over".

Thanks.

Eddy.