DAB On The Road
A sweltering journey down the A9 this afternoon - in a hired car. I'm doing a bit of zig-zagging across the country for the next few days, so the train was no use. It took me half an hour to work out how to operate the air conditioning by which time I had discovered the car was equipped with a DAB radio.
No signal on that until I reached Perth, of course, and then a chance to hear how some of the local commercial stations sounded now that they are networking programmes across the country. It was odd to hear a well-known Radio Clyde D.J. on Radio Tay, but there's a slick system which adds in lots of local 'idents' and even a short 'what's on' guide for the local area. The D.J. sitting in Clydebank is obviously very careful not to make specific mention of his whereabouts...and the saving grace is the familiar music which, on DAB, sounds a lot better than it does on Medium Wave.
This, for better or worse, is the changing landscape of radio in Scotland and my news colleague . It's worth a read.
Comments
or to comment.