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New digital radio body to be set up
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 4 September 2009
The good old Digital Radio Development Bureau is to be closed down to be replaced by the Digital Radio Delivery Group. The latter, proposed by the much previously reported ‘Digital Britain’ report, has just advertised for a CEO. I think the Group’s remit will be wider than that of the Bureau, but don’t quote me on that. Although set up by government, the new body will also report into the recently established industry-wide Radio Council and the existing Radio Centre, the trade body for the commercial radio sector. The Group will be charged with the task of turning the whole of the UK over to digital radio by 2015, so all those analogue transmitters can be turned off, and the air space they use sold off to the highest bidder.
