Submitted on Saturday 6th August 2011
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Abandon the switch off of national FM radio transmissions
Replacing millions of FM radios with DAB may bring £billions to the treasury in VAT but will cost HUNDREDS of pounds for EVERY household.
The government lists advantages of DAB such as ‘pause’, ‘rewind’ and low costs £35 sets but fails to mention the £35 DAB radios do not have premium functions such as ‘pause’ and ‘rewind’. Those radios cost hundreds of pounds and beyond the reach of most listeners.
The BBC estimates households have an average of 6 radios. Given that some are Hi-Fi quality radios, it will cost households many hundreds of pounds to upgrade.
The advantages of DAB are small to the listener. The disadvantage of switching off FM transmissions are enormous. Hundreds of millions of radios will become useless and thrown into landfill.
The difference between FM and DAB is too small to warrant the replacement of EVERY radio set in the country. Better to wait for a new technology that provides a real improvement on what FM provides.
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