Abandon digital radio switchover plans, stations tell minister.
Stations tell the government not to make the radio switch to digital as there are still many people using analogue, this could cost stations and radio users hundreds of pounds otherwise. this poses a serious risk of listeners loosing their access to radio stations.
The group is made up of 13 commercial companies including UTV-owned national sports station TalkSport and Celador Radio run by Paul Smith, the man behind ITV's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?.
Scott Taunton says there is no real benefit to changing over to digital, there is no demand in the market and listeners are happy with the service they are provide at this time.
- The consortium representing 80 stations across the UK listened to by 6 million people a week
- there are about 100m analogue sets still in use in UK homes.
- A total of 35.6% of all radio listening was on digital platforms in the third quarter of this year
I believe there is no useful reason to change over to digital radio, as of now the only people who use it are the people who are set in their ways of using the device, this may upset many of the elderly citizens of the uk, the next generation will not need radio soon it may die out.
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