Posted on 04/19/2015 11:41:50 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Video may have killed the radio star, but in Norway it's digital that's killing FM radio for good.
In two years' time, the Scandinavian nation is slated to become the first in the world to phase out radio entirely.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc-7.com ...
My radio is on AM talk all day. Weekends are duds, so I catch up on podcasts from those I missed during the week!
Same here.
Generally agree. Not much since 1870 worth much...
I’m a fan of much popular music from ragtime and blues into country, swing, very early jazz, rock, rock and roll, rockabilly.
Much classical music but not all, by any stretch. Don’t like much jazz after the mid Forties
Most of the music iike is from the first three quarters of the 20th century
I don’t like most classical since 1825, about the time that Beethoven died. Some of that 20th Century classical especially is hard to listen to. Except maybe Mahler and Wagner.
Sounds good to me on the jazz.
I was just ragging you a bit on the ‘70s timeframe.
Freud wore a slip? Do tell.
I forgot Boogie and R&B art forms formed from blues/jazz and morphed into white doowap and rock and roll.
Wouldn’t do much in Tromso I guess in terms of broadcast radio. I thought Bergen was very pleasant when I saw it in 92.
Is there anything factually correct in this article including “the” and “a”? Norwegian stations have been broadcasting (yes, over the air...not internet) on different frequencies with a digital coding method for a while. The had planned to get abandon the FM broadcast band once enough stations and receivers had switched to digital. This is similar to how the US recently switched to digital television.
But if you find an FM receiver from 1940 it won’t work because FM was originally assigned 42 to 50 MHz and was moved to its current frequencies, obsoleting all the transmitters and receivers, in 1945.
Digital (HD) radio has been available in cars for more than half a decade now. In many it's an option choice, in some it's standard. You can replace your older receiver with one for $50 and up.
Thanks for the giggle first thing in the morning.
/johnny
When you say "our cars", do you mean "US cars"? Or do you mean your personal vehicles?
My wife's car (a 2013 Toyota) has an HD radio. My car (a 2014 Honda) may have it, but I always listen to XM Radio, not local broadcast.
Bergan is nice, Voss is a nice town, so is Tromso, . If you want the sticks then Finse is a place to be.
I spent a lot of time on deployment doing mountain and Arctic warfare and it is cold and desolate.
I listen to some talk radio stations via Internet, because the reception is better. I live in a semi-rural town and it is difficult to get over-the-air TV and radio.
I use a program called Radio Sure to access radio stations.
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I have noticed recently that one area talk radio station frequently goes silent during commercial breaks. I assume they cannot sell enough advertising to fill the breaks. I also wonder how much longer they will survive.
Just so nobody reads something into the name that isn't there, "HD Radio" isn't "High Definition Radio". They just want you to think that's the case.
Actually in this context, "HD" has no meaning at all other than as a trade name.
Some cars, as you noted, do come with HD radio and the sound is superb. I find the sound quality better than XM radio or CD.
HD Radio needs to be offered on all factory radios if HD Radio is to take off.
The was because David Sarnoff used his political influence to move the FM band in order to bankrupt Edwin Armstrong. Armstrong had a company and was producing FM receivers. RCA wanted to horn in on the action. Armstrong started out at RCA and his invention and patenting of the superheterodyne receiver gave RCA a virtual 19 year monopoly. He never got along with David Sarnoff.
Upon hearing of Armstrong’s apparent suicide, the very first thing Sarnoff said is reported to have been, “I did not kill Ed Armstrong.”
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