The French Government has announced that it has selected Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) as the sole standard for the digitization of the bands AM in France. T-DMB will be used on Band III (currently used for analogue broadcasts of Canal+) and Band L. The organization which has been campaigning for DRM in France, L’Association pour la Radio Numérique DR (Digital Radio), says that the decision to adopt a multi-standard system shows that the authorities want to make the radio of the future accessible in a technically and economically acceptable way.
(Source: Télésatellite via David de Jong/R Netherlands Media Network)