Ben Poor: Digital Broadcasting Expands Choice

23.07.2024 - European Broadcasting Union (EBU) WorldDAB Member

The EBU has long recommended its members look to digitize their radio services due to the benefits it can bring to both broadcasters and listeners. Over the years that I have been involved with digital radio, the landscape of user device support has gone through many changes. Back in the mid-2000s, options for listening to DAB (the original MP2-encoded version, and not its more modern DAB+ variant) relied on tabletop radio devices valued in the 100s of euros. Now, I can easily find an equivalent at a fraction of this, and more than 125 million devices have been sold globally, according to industry figures as of 2023.

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