FM Radio 'scrappage scheme'

The UK Goverment aims to stop FM broadcasting in 2015 but with over 100 million perfectly good FM radios in the UK there have been calls for a 'scrappage scheme' to be introduced.

The Guardian newspaper reports that radio Industry executives hope that the idea will quash a potential rebellion among FM radio listeners as the deadline for switching off the analogue radio signal approaches in a few years' time.

Read the full Guardian article at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/
01/radio-analogue-scrappage-scheme-digital

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