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Developing Digital Radio For Ireland: Emerging Approaches And Strategies, Brian O'Neill
Developing Digital Radio For Ireland: Emerging Approaches And Strategies, Brian O'Neill
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Ireland’s experience of the transition from public service broadcasting to public service media has gathered pace within the last year with new legislative arrangements for media regulation, the awarding of digital terrestrial television licences and renewed attempts to introduce digital radio broadcasting on the DAB platform. The national public broadcaster, RTE, has played a central role in these developments as it attempts to manage a range of technology platforms and to provide media services for an increasingly diverse and complex market. This paper addresses the case of digital radio in Ireland and the prospects for a successful launch of DAB …
Digital Radio In Europe: Technologies, Industries And Cultures, Brian O'Neill
Digital Radio In Europe: Technologies, Industries And Cultures, Brian O'Neill
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Dab Eureka-147: The European Vision For Digital Radio, Brian O'Neill
Dab Eureka-147: The European Vision For Digital Radio, Brian O'Neill
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The digitalisation of radio broadcasting has a long history and as a project has been under active consideration for at least 25 years. A number of different technical approaches to digital radio exist, the longest established of which is the so-called Eureka-147 or DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) system. This paper explores the ‘technological imaginary’ of DAB and its distinctly ‘European’ vision for new media and the future of broadcasting. It examines its origins in European R&D policy of the 1980s, and its affinity with European broadcasting practice, particularly within a public service tradition. Ironically, it was DAB’s failure to capitalise …
Back To The Future: The Emergence Of Contrasting European And Us Approaches To Digital Radio, Brian O'Neill
Back To The Future: The Emergence Of Contrasting European And Us Approaches To Digital Radio, Brian O'Neill
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Digital radio has been in development for over 25 years and yet is no nearer a point of successful adoption. This paper explores the emergence of contrasting European and American approaches to digital radio. The most established of these, Eureka-147 or Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB), which originated in Europe, is contrasted with the so-called IBOC or /HD Radio approach, as alternative collective conceptualizations of how technology can bridge contemporary broadcasting practice to an ̳imagined‘ digital future. Drawing on the concept of ̳symptomatic technology‘ (Williams 1974), DAB‘s origins in European R&D policy of the 1980s and its affinity with established European …
Digital Radio Policy In Canada: From Analog Replacement To Multimedia Convergence, Brian O'Neill
Digital Radio Policy In Canada: From Analog Replacement To Multimedia Convergence, Brian O'Neill
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Digital radio policy in Canada has moved from a position of seeking to migrate all radio broadcasting onto a single digital transmission system (Eureka-147) to a multi-platform, cross-media and multimedia approach. The most recent digital radio policy of 2006 suggests a range of new possibilities for radio broadcasting, including multimedia broadcasting, but as a result has compromised the early adoption of the Eureka-147 standard. This paper contrasts the different policy contexts of 1995 and 2006 and argues that the competing technological options for digital audio delivery now pose significant dilemmas for broadcasters and policy makers.