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It should be sometime between 2015 and 2020, says the Digital Radio Working Group, in its interim report. The Guardian reports that, by then, all the national, regional and major local stations (BBC Local Radio and others) would have migrated to DAB.
But this wouldn’t necessarily be the end of analog FM - the interim report [...]

Vermont Public Radio is doing lots of innovative things and reaping the results in audience and membership. The latest initiative launched today - a “Green Membership Drive.” There’s been a lot of talk about this, but unless I’m mistaken, there’s not been much experimentation with it yet.
VPR seems to have gone the distance on this [...]

Jim Russell passed this along from BusinessWeek:
“… of all major consumer media, radio is the least suited to an online transition. … Radio is built to a large degree on music it doesn’t own and syndicated talk shows. Both are available in countless venues online, which means radio Web sites have less unique stuff to [...]