I see !
No one gives a rat's behind, so it must be very interesting ? Would anyone care to elaborate ?
Despite being given six months to respond, it seems no one is interested in running a digital-only radio station during the London Olympics - so Ofcom has shelved the idea. In April the regulator put out a request that those interested in running a DAB station for the duration of the 2012 games, and not beyond, should drop …
I hope to receive updates on the Olympics via an invention that all the youfs have been talking about. I think its called an Interwebs and apparently its like some kind of electromonical newspaper that can be updated regularly, rather than relying on print schedules. I understand that by 2012, we should have telephones without wires that can be taken anywhere AND have the interwebs copied onto them. Imagine that?
Good idea, sir. I also intend on making requisite adjustments to the wavelength adjuster on my wireless electrogramme in order to fulfil my Olympic update needs. I hear that the BBC themselves ensure that regular updates on how many medals behind the rest of the world we are are made.
This DAB malarky is tomfoolery and poppycock and has no place in our modern society.
"The small number of responses, Ofcom explained, "means we have not been able to gauge fully how attractive a proposition this is likely to be to commercial operators". We'd venture a guess that the small number of responses is actually a good indicator of how attractive the proposition is."
- Yes, not fcuking very!! idots.
Everybody and his dog already gets Restricted Service Licences or whatever they're now called for short term events (everything from Caroline anniversaries to the Great Dorset Steam Fair and beyond). Will there be one for the Olympics? If so, why would anyone care about DAB?
Given the fact there's going to be a lot of tourists, many of whom live in countries wise enough to realise DAB is shite.
Using FM/AM would allow many tourists to listen, they could bring their own recievers, or probably wouldn't be adverse to shelling out a fiver for one during the event. I'm guessing they'd be less willing to shell out over £30 for something they have no use for after the games.
The cynic in me wonders if that was the idea; sell a shitload of dab sets to tourists and then massage the figures to make it look like domestic purchases.
No doubt reflects this interest of the citizenry in this Blair/Brown extravaganza.
Britain will be hard pressed to equal the BeiJing games and let's hope the Olympics will be paid off more quickly than the 1976 Montreal Olympics which took TWENTY YEARS TO PAY OFF!|
"The Montreal Olympics can no more have a deficit, than a man can have a baby," said then Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau - a politician well know for extorting money from senior levels of government.
Wonder where Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci is these days?
The bloody government, f-ofcom and the industry need to just admit what everyone's knows - that DAB is useless crap and a complete waste of everyone's time and money.
Yeah, 'cus MP2 is really the future of audio broadcasting isint it! If DAB was good, pirate radio stations would be available on it but no, they are all still on FM or this thing called "the interwebz tubez"!
ASDA were doing them for £15 so I thought I would give it a go and see if it could replace the one in my bathroom.
Dinky little thing that ran on 4x AA batteries, nice sound to it and it told me the time as well.
Some 4 weeks later it's sitting downstairs on my desk and I'm back to using my old FM radio in the bathroom.
Why? To get to listen to music I need to:
push a slider at the back to turn it on, and
then press a bottom on the top to activate it, and
then press the same button again for it to go into DAB (or FM) mode.
On my old FM radio all I needed to do was to turn the little power/vol knob on the front.
When it works the DAB radio is great, but the batteries only lasted a few weeks and the turning on/off procedure really annoyed me.
I'm sure they will get there one day, but until then I will be sticky with FM.
ttfn
I gave up on a DAB clock radio for the same reason.
On the Sony FM job it was to replace, one button press gets me a 90 minute sleep on the last FM station.
The stupid DAB wants me to turn it on, select the right source, then press a bunch of buttons to get sleep going.
The only reason I wanted to replace the Sony was I was getting interference which I thought was the tuner chip dying. Turned out the interference was from a dying DECT phone base station sat next to it, the clock radio lives on.