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Show Highlights;
- Leading Digital Radio Show - with European radio broadcasters and key players speaking - companies include: BBC, Channel 4, Virgin Radio, Commerical Radio Australia, World DAB, DRM, Ondas Media, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, GMG Radio, The Radio Academy, Korean Broadcasting Systems, Guardian Group Radio, and Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
- Conference passes registration - Early booking - £382 for 1 day ; £675 2 days
- FREE exhibition-only passes available
Registration hotline +44 (0)20 7017 5506 or click here
Confirmed Digital Radio Show Speakers:
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Christian Kjeldsen, Project Manager, DAB Digital Radio Danmark
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Andy Grumbridge, Director of Digital Media, Virgin Radio
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David Krueger, Executive Vice President, Ondas Media
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Joern Jensen,
Director of Engineering, NRK
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James Cridland, Head of Future Media & Technology, BBC Audio & Music Interactive
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Won Sup Shin, Deputy Director, Radio Division, Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)
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John Ousby, Head of Distribution Technology, BBC Radio
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Joan Warner, CEO, Commercial Radio Australia
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Nick Piggott, Head of Creative Technology, GCap Media
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Dusty Rhodes, MD, Digital Radio Ireland
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Sarah Bellamy, Director of Digital Media, GMG Radio
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Ruxandra Obreja, Chairman, DRM Consortium
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The possibilities and opportunities that arise with the growth of the digital radio industry are endless and yet it has not seen the explosive growth that broadband internet or freeview TV has. Its slow and steady growth over the last few years has been stilted along the way by a series of problems and challenges that the industry has to overcome in order for listening to digital radio to become ‘the norm’ amongst the general public.
The closure of digital radio stations by GCAP earlier this year proves that making money from digital radio is difficult and it also poses questions about the future of DAB in the UK. Yet optimists of DAB quote increased listening figures and insist that DAB is far from facing extinction yet.
The media industry is converging very quickly and the question is now about where the radio industry will fit into this new landscape. Radio stations now have to think of themselves as multimedia companies in order to survive. With a plethora of platforms and devices on which to broadcast, they must now offer enhanced services to gain and maintain their audiences and these include the application of video, text, sound and graphics, becoming part of the ‘social networking’ phenomenon and of course producing first rate original content.
Looking beyond the UK - across the other side of the World in Australia we eagerly await the launch of DAB+, a route that Germany is also looking to take while in Norway they are working towards the total FM switch off. Will there ever be harmonisation of technology standards?
The Digital Radio Show 2008 will address all of these issues and more – hear from leading platforms and key European broadcasters talk about their experiences, good and bad, and where they see the future for the digital radio industry in a multimedia market place.
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