DAB a finalist in the Fiasco Awards

A website based in Catalonia lists Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) as one of nine finalists in the Fiasco Awards 2009.

According to the website:
“In 1988 the first tests were carried out in Geneva, and ten years later broadcasting began in Spain. The most important radio stations showed up with few enthusiasm to the call for tenders that the Spanish and the Catalan Governments launched from the year 2000 onwards, and for the last eight years they have been broadcasting with no audience.

The estimated investment on digital radio has been of 50 million euros in Spain, an amount that got to 350 million thanks to the help of the other six European countries that believed in this technology.

In Catalonia the fiasco was accomplished in November 2008, when after ten years without an audience, the Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals - the Public Catalan Media Corporation - brought digital radio broadcasting to a halt.”

Readers of this Weblog can vote until 25 February via the Fiasco Awards website.

Source: Media Network