Thursday, 22. December 2016
Topic: weiss nicht - on December 22, 2016 at 4:50:00 PM CET
Norwegians are about to lose their FM radio and they’re not happy about it
In just a matter of weeks, Norway will tune out FM radio for good and become the world's first country to switch over to digital-only transmissions. Norway's government has decided that the nation's FM airwaves will fall silent from January 11, 2017, starting in Nordland and gradually moving south.
After nearly a century of the analogue system, which revolutionised music listening with high-fidelity stereo sound compared to mono AM transmissions, the changeover to Digital Audio Broadcasting's advanced version (DAB+) will render the country's almost eight million radio sets obsolete.
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