Reuters has word that the Federal Communications Commission approved a new digital radio standard last monday:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal regulators on Thursday approved a new technology for offering digital radio service, one of the biggest upgrades in decades in sound quality and choice of stations and a challenge to the growing pay-satellite radio services.
Consumers will eventually have to buy new radios, which are not expected to be on the market until next year, and stations will have to upgrade their transmitting equipment, at an average cost of about $75,000, according to iBiquity.
Once rolled out, iBiquity boasts that FM radio signals will be upgraded to the sound quality similar to compact discs and AM radio will have sound quality equivalent to FM.
This is definately something that has been heavily in demand, and I hope it takes hold. The full story is
here.
