The Norway Ministry of Culture has announced that it is going to completely transition towards digital radio by switching off FM radio across the country, starting January 11, 2017 and ending December ...

Norway will be first country to kill FM radio when transition begins in 2017. — -- The FM radio dial will soon join the ranks of obsolete technology alongside the floppy disk, answering machines ...

The last time we had a major shift in our technology standards, people couldn’t figure out if their television would work without a tiny little box or not. The transfer from OTA broadcasting to ...

The death knell of FM radio has sounded in Norway, but fortunately for listeners, that doesn't mean radio is going away. Instead, Norway is shifting to Digital Audio Broadcasting, a system already ...

OSLO — “A digital radio wave moving across Europe, with Norway leading the way,” is how Patrick Hannon, WorldDAB president, described Wednesday’s switch-off of FM broadcasts in Nordland county. Norway ...

OSLO — During the “Radioens Digitale Sprang” (Radio’s Digital Leap”) conference, held June 11 in Oslo, the mood matched the weather: bright and sunny. In April, the Norwegian government announced a ...

First, they came for analog TV. Now, they’re coming for analog radio. This week, Norway’s Minister of Culture announced that the country will stop broadcasting radio signals over the FM band. The move ...

Eleven months after the first FM signals in Norway signed off the air forever, part of an effort approved by the Norwegian government to shift all radio listeners to DAB-delivered digital radio ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. This article is more than 10 years old. Radio is changing around ...

FM radio broadcasting was invented in the United States in 1933. After a slow start, it became wildly popular all around the world, largely because the frequency modulation technology used offered ...