Reply to post: Re: The death of FM has been greatly exagerated...

Ofcom waves DAB radio licences under local broadcasters' noses as FM switchoff debate smoulders again

SImon Hobson Bronze badge

Re: The death of FM has been greatly exagerated...

Talking of apocalypse ...

This https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-35020049

Leads to this https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/blogs/lancaster-power-cuts-blog.pdf

And the frank and honest post-mortem report https://www.raeng.org.uk/publications/reports/living-without-electricity which contains this priceless note :

"Most of the local participants at the workshop said that they had listened to The Bay as their key news feed. It is perhaps ironic that, in a society with huge commitment to digital infrastructure, the most reliable source of news was a commercial station using technology that would have been familiar to the engineers on the 1960s Radio Caroline pirate radio ship."

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