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<h1 class="heading" itemprop="headline">By 2017, Norway wants to
be the first country to ditch FM radio entirely</h1>
<h2 class="standalone-deck" itemprop="description">Unlike digital
radio listeners elsewhere (US included), 50 percent-plus already
use DAB.</h2>
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<p class="byline" itemprop="author creator" itemscope=""
itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> by <a itemprop="url"
href="http://arstechnica.com/author/nathan-mattise/"
rel="author"><span itemprop="name">Nathan Mattise</span></a>
- <span title="Sun Apr 19 2015 21:00:20 GMT+0100 (GMT
Standard Time)" class="date" data-time="1429473620">Apr 19,
2015 9:00pm BST</span> </p>
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<p class="p1">This week, Norway's Ministry of Culture announced its
plans to transition completely towards digital radio and turn off
FM radio nationwide, according to an English report from <a
href="http://radio.no/2015/04/norway-to-switch-off-fm-in-2017/">Radio.no</a> (the <a
href="https://www.regjeringen.no/nb/aktuelt/radiodigitaliseringen-skjer-i-2017/id2406145/">original
announcement in Norwegian</a> can be found here). The switch-off
is scheduled to begin in January 2017, and it would make Norway
the first country in the world to "decide upon an analogue
switch-off for all major radio channels," according to the
announcement.</p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/04/by-2017-norway-wants-to-be-the-first-country-to-ditch-fm-radio-entirely/">http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/04/by-2017-norway-wants-to-be-the-first-country-to-ditch-fm-radio-entirely/</a><br>
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