Norway goes Digital, eliminates FM radio

Garrett Wollman wollman@bimajority.org
Thu Jan 12 01:37:28 EST 2017


<<On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 00:38:20 -0500, Kevin Vahey <kvahey@gmail.com> said:

> Meanwhile Industry Canada is slowly approving HD FM transmitters in Canada.
> Of course the lack of consumer HD receivers available will doom the format
> from catching on as has happened in the US.

What lack of consumer HD receivers?  Most new cars have them, if you
get one with a nav system, because that's how they get their traffic
data.  (That way it works without a SiriusXM subscription, that being
the other major nationwide provider of traffic data.)

-GAWollman



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