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UK regulator considering going digital on mediumwavePeter Davies, Director of Radio and Multimedia at UK media regulator Ofcom, has angered national commercial broadcasters TalkSport and Virgin Radio by suggesting that their AM licences may not be renewed in six years’s time, to allow for a switch to DRM on mediumwave. According to Media Guardian, TalkSport responded by saying that considering ditching AM broadcasts was “crazy” and “illogical”. Scott Taunton, the managing director of TalkSport’s owners UTV Radio, said “I’ll fight tooth and nail to have our licence extended even further. The public interest is best-served by an AM service being available until we have a date for switch-off. In 2012 more than half our audience will still be listening on AM, so to turn us off would be commercial suicide.” Read
the full story in Media Guardian Source: Media Network
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