Today, a study that shows how digital can replace the standard FM radio is already about seven years. Advertising radio channels and Radio Sweden wants to move to digital DAB broadcasts that provides more channels. But the question is if the government wants to invest the money that the industry believes is required.
Digital terrestrial radio will start in two years according to the plan the government sector coordinator Nina Wormbs adds presented to the government today. The plan includes the FM band, which basically is full, goes out in 2022, or at the latest in 2024 if not all conditions are met, writes Nina Wormbs on DN debate.
It was the moderate Culture Minister Lena Adelsohn-Liljeroth who gave Nina Wormbs commissioned to investigate how it is going to put out FM broadcasts and switch to digital radio broadcasts with technology DAB +.
It is now the government with the Green Party and The Social Democrats who receives the commission’s findings and given that the former Social Democratic Minister of Culture Leif Pagrotsky said no support for DAB radio back in 2005, it is doubtful if today is a willingness to pay hundreds of millions in aid.
The private commercial radio stations which is dominated by companies SBS and MTG has received a license to broadcast digitally for a total of about 20 radio stations that can reach over Sweden. But the companies behind commercial radio has declared that they will wait to start until the Swedish Radio begins rollout of DAB +.
Before today’s inquiry, Swedish Radio’s CEO Priscilla Benkö said that it is the politicians who must decide. She believes that additional funding to Swedish Radio will manage to make extra applications that can only go in DAB + and that will entice people to buy DAB radios.
Nina Wormbs investigation is expected to include a plan on how the transition from terrestrial analogue sound broadcasting to digital terrestrial sound broadcasting to go to. Cooperation between the National Agency for radio and television, advertising radio stations and Radio Sweden combined with a state-guaranteed loans in the same way as digital television was introduced throughout the country.
Culture Alice Bah (MP) and the government can no earlier than about one year to submit a possible proposal for the introduction of digital radio broadcasting.
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