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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Former Radio Veronica ship may be coming home/DRM tests planned for Wollongong, Australia

credit: MediaNetwork Weblog
The former broadcasting vessel used by Radio Veronica may be coming home to the Netherlands after spending the past five years in the harbour of Antwerp, Belgium. The ship has been converted to a discotheque, and the Dutch municipality of Waalwijk is interested in using it for the same purpose. Negotiations are currently under way with the current owner, and the local council in Waalwijk. There are some obstacles to be overcome: the harbour in Waalwijk does not currently hold an entertainment licence, and there are questions about parking arrangements. The ship, the Norderney, has been used by various owners as a place of entertainment since it ended its ten-year spell of duty as a radio ship in 1974.

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DRM tests planned for Wollongong, Australia
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has released updated policy guidelines for digital radio trials using the broadcasting services bands. Among the details announced by ACMA Chairman Chris Chapman in a speech to the Australian Broadcasting Summit in Sydney yesterday was a decision to make spectrum available in the MF AM band on 1386 kHz in the Wollongong region for a digital radio trial. TJH Systems, a broadcasting engineering consultancy firm, will operate a trial of digital radio technology using Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) for a period of six months from 1 April 2006.

"ACMA’s decision follows consideration of all requests to use the 1386 kHz frequency. There is interest in its use for community radio and open narrowcasting radio broadcasting, and competing applications to trial digital radio technology," said Mr Chapman.

Trialling digital radio technologies is an important informer of the introduction of digital radio in Australia, providing the government and ACMA with more information about the utility of spectrum and the performance of digital radio systems than the mere modelling of services will allow.

ACMA has decided not to re-open the Sydney licence area plan to further consider the use of 1386 kHz at this point in time. Instead, ACMA has exercised its power to make spectrum available on a short term basis for another use while leaving the frequency in the licence area plan for potential use as an analogue community radio service.

(Source: ACMA)