Abstract:

The arrival of digital radio systems via cable and satellite at home in the living room will now be followed by the digital “everywhere radio” technology already knocking at the door: Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) to be received with a small aerial rod aerial. Besides excellent transmission quality, new radio programmes and additional data services displayed on a screen will expand existing radio broadcasting by new multimedia forms of mass communication. The DAB system will actually be launched at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in August 1997 in Berlin.