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Norway shuts down FM radio braodcasting in risky, unpopular shift to digital
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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/06/508501366/norway-will-be-first-country-to-shut-down-fm-network-go-all-digital
>Starting next week, Norway will become the first country to switch off its nationwide FM radio network and convert completely to digital signals.
>The change was announced in 2015, and will take months to be fully implemented.
>The Norwegian government decided to make the transition in part because digital radio can provide many more channels for the same price — eight times as many, to be precise.
>Norway currently has room for just five national radio stations on its FM system — three public broadcasting channels, and two commercial channels. Other national radio stations, as well as some regional and local stations, are already using the digital system.
>Supporters of the switch also say digital radio will sound clearer than FM, or frequency modulation, and that the signal will be clearer in places where fjords and mountains interfere with FM signals.
>As we reported in 2015, the Norwegian government also says that digital radio is less likely to fail in extreme conditions, which lawmakers saw as an advantage for emergency preparedness.
>The CEO of Digitalradio Norway says the country's FM network is antiquated and would need massive investments to maintain — so, to allow investment in digital radio, the FM network needs to be shut down
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http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/06/technology/norway-fm-radio-shut/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-norway-radio-idUSKBN14P1TH
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>>97523
>digital provides more chanels for same price
Aww jeez.. so it's financially motivated and not based on logic. Got it.
So how do you get word out in a national emergency? Do they have some kind of hardened fibre optic network or something?
Protip: don't call it radio. It's called webcasting. Should work well when the power is out.
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>>99578
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>>99597
*sigh* Sarcasm in that last sentence was lost on you wasn't it.
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>>99796
too smart tbh
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>>99796
>merely pretending
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>>97523
this is quite good. the world needs to be more connected.
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