[HCDX] YLE Closes Down DAB Radio Services

["Mauno Ritola" <Mauno.Ritola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

     http://www.yle.fi/news/left/id7740.html

     YLE Closes Down DAB Radio Services
     Published 23.02.2005, 10.51


                 Image: YLE24

           The Finnish Broadcasting Company-YLE is suspending its DAB 
digital broadcasting services as commercial operators have shown no interest 
in the medium.



           DAB, Digital Audio broadcasting, arrived in Finland in 1997 as 
an energy-efficient means of radio transmission. Many channels can be 
broadcast within a single matrix and received by a suitable radio.

           Although enthusiasm has been great in some European countries, 
for example, the United Kingdom, manufacturers have been reluctant to bring 
cheap mass-produced sets on the market in other countries.

           Commercial broadcasters in Finland have shied away from DAB due 
to the prohibitive costs of setting up a new radio distribution network.

           The Finnish Broadcasting Company- YLE has offered listeners all 
its available channels via DAB in the south of the country in addition to a 
few separate outlets including an all-day spoken word service, a classical 
music channel and two foreign language services YLE World and YLE Mondo.

           YLE will continue digital radio broadcasts via digi-TV and some 
broadcasts will be made available via the internet. The company will monitor 
technological developments to determine what appropriate multimedia 
distribution technology could compensate for the demise of DAB.

           If international developments, however, lead to the adoption of 
DAB as a pan-European distribution standard, YLE will retain the means to 
resume DAB services.

           YLE24

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