Australian Digital Radio : What is It?

What it is is relatively new. What it isn't is well known!

The commercial Australian radio stations launched digital broadcasting in five capital cities – Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth in May 2009.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) commenced its Digital Radio Broadcasts later in the year.

Coverage is being extended all the time and more Australians will have access to the services in 2010.

Australian Digital Radio is different. Where most of the world's digital radio broadasters use the DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) standard, Australia decided to adopt the newer DAB+ (Plus) standard.

This meant that DAB radios that had been available in other countries would not work in Australia.

So how does it work?
The audio is converted into a digital format for transmission on the radio wave as a stream of ones and zeros. Most of us are familiar with streaming audio from the Internet or our mobile phones and it's essentially the same process on a bigger scale.

W'ell be publishing more information in future posts including something exclusive and very special we just found out about, so stay tuned!