Source SMH: NEW commercial-free radio stations are emerging for the nation’s estimated 100,000 owners of digital radio sets as broadcasters strive to fill gaps in digital programming.
Public broadcaster SBS and Melbourne commercial broadcaster Pacific Star have launched music stations this month, the first anniversary of full-time radio broadcasts on the DAB+ format.
Broadcasters with AM or FM licences have up to 128 kilobits per second of data to pump out over the airwaves using the DAB+ format. It gives them the flexibility to reassign a data stream into smaller chunks allowing it to broadcast more stations, or to allocate a higher bitrate to fewer stations for better sound quality Full article here
