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<H1>UK Government committed to switch off analogue radio</H1>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The newspaper the <EM>Daily Telegraph</EM> reports that the
UK Government is committed to switch off analogue radio.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>They report:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>“Digital radio is the future of radio,” UK Culture Minister
Ed Vaizey told Jeremy Vine at the Radio Festival in Manchester.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>He added that it would be "perverse" not to help drive the
radio industry and consumers towards achieving digital switchover, as the
Government had a duty to “get people in the right place, which includes
technical specifications”.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Two factors have to be in place by the end of 2013 for
digital radio switchover to be achieved by the end of 2015: over 50 per cent of
listeners must be listening to radio digitally, and DAB coverage across the UK
needs to be comparable to FM, which will cost in the range of £150
million.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Read the full Daily Telegraph article - Help make FM
switchover happen, Ed Vaizey tells the BBC<BR></FONT><A
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