"tony sayer" wrote in message

In article , DAB sounds worse than
FM
dab.is@dead.? scribeth thus
"tony sayer" wrote in message

In article , DAB sounds worse
than
FM dab.is@dead.? scribeth thus
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message

In article ,
DAB sounds worse than FM dab.is@dead wrote:
4 national stations closed on the Digital One multiplex earlier
this
year because they couldn't afford to pay the £1 million per
year
transmission costs.

DAB+ is 2 - 3 times cheaper to transmit per station. That's a
big,
big
saving for a station.

The costs charged for rental have little to do with actual
costs.


Totally wrong. It was the TRANSMISSION COSTS that caused the DAB
crisis earlier this year. GCap wanted to close 4 stations
(theJazz,
Core, Life and Planet Rock - the latter was sold), and it wanted
to
sell its 67% stake in Digital One for £1 to Arqiva.

Who do the actual transmission.

And I reckon before long will become a large broadcaster in their
own
right..

Then all the commercial broadcast and transmission platforms will
be
Aussie controlled;(...

It was the transmission costs that led to that and to Fru Hazlitt
saying that DAB is "not an economically viable platform".

It's common knowledge that the transmission costs are exhorbitant
on
DAB.


Indeed couldn't be better set up for a Monopoly organisation;!...


How did Arqiva taking over NGW get past the monopolies and mergers
thing?



They rolled over and let them tickle their tummies like the way we
do so
well;(...


Looks like it.


I expect that no one at the commission really understood it all....


Sounds like the FSA or Ofcom must have advised them if they couldn't
figure out that one transmission provider taking over the only other
transmission provider left a monopoly.



--
Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info

The adoption of DAB was the most incompetent technical
decision ever made in the history of UK broadcasting:
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/da...ion_of_dab.htm