Manis Kumar, OP 02 Sept 2018
Bhubaneswar: Despite added advantage over transmissions, the high cost of higher digital radio receiver sets seems to be a hurdle in rolling out digital radio transmissions from different radio stations of the public broadcaster – All India Radio (AIR), in the state.
Earlier, the AIR had planned to adopt the international DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) standard for digital terrestrial radio transmissions in the Medium Wave (MW) and Short Wave (SW) bands. While three AIR stations in Chennai, Delhi and Rajkot have started offering digital transmissions, 33 other AIR stations have been offering digital transmissions through `simulcast mode’ wherein digital and conventional transmissions are both done simultaneously.
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