Posted on 04/20/2015 9:54:18 AM PDT by Auslander154
First it was Net Neutrality; will the demise of FM radio come next ?
Norway will be switching off FM radio as of 2017 as part of its transition to digital airwaves, DAB. Norway will save $25 million without the FM spectrum making it possible to add 20 or more "national" stations to its digital offerings.
Other Scandinavian countries as well as the UK are planning to abandon FM by 2022.
For the consumer it means having to buy a new DAB radio which will no doubt soon be given free by Dear Leader along with your phone, toaster and rice cooker.
Before this piece starts sounding too conspiratorial, what Norway is doing is just shutting down its government FM stations which they say allows it to expand its government programming on digital radio.
I'm sure the FCC is listening.
Okay, so we all bought new TV’s to get the new broadcast HD signals.
Now we’ll all have to buy new radios?....................
Okay, color me surprised, AM not gone. Leaves the range heating ....
This was on this morning .
I’ve been to Norway and lived there many times. There is no reason to have FM north of Bergan as there is hardly anyone living up there outside the city and then the mountains stop the signal anyway.
We hardly ever got a decent reception there so it makes sense to get rid of it I suppose.
Feed her some hungry reggae she’ll love you twice
The girls don’t seem to care tonight
As long as the mood is right
FM - no static at all
NO, they will be provided and installed in all available locations so you can readily hear Big Brother's pronouncements of victories in the Eastasian War and the increases in the chocolate ration.
Here in the US it all comes via Obamaphones anyway.
They probably just play a-ha 24/7 over there, anyway.
Yes, it probably a sound financial decision.
But now that everybody has seen it, like the FCC and others, they will want to make us all buy new radios, just like we did TV’s a couple of years back....................
I read somewhere that there was a ‘new’ TV standard in the works that may replace the ‘old’ HDTV standard, so we will all have to buy new TV’s AGAIN!............................
Modern day society is too expensive for the average human to afford.
And will these free radios come with microphones and transmitters installed?
In Soviet Union, radio listens to YOU!..............
Nope, QUEEN....................
[Yawn}
Another tragedy of living in the first world.
Well we can’t afford a new TV , hell we can’t afford to buy pizza delivery
You are far better of without................. BOTH.........................
Don’t forget about the Scandinavian Death Metal station.
LOL you’re probably right.
They may enjoy one of my favorite Queen albums, Queen 2. On it you hear March of The Black Queen. The first side of the album is mostly acoustic ballads, the flip side is a wild visit to an imaginary kingdom. The album in total, is exaggerated, exhilarating and excellent!
Nope, ABBA
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