Norway becomes first country to switch off FM radio

I do enjoy am/fm in the car while driving. My SiriusXM subscription ran out a long time ago and I don’t feel like renewing it. I enjoy am/fm and my radio even has HD radio but that can be hit or miss. Seems like we’ll be in the dark, technology wise, should any disasters hit.
 
I don't enjoy listening to FM radio anymore. Classic Rock stations play the same classic rock over and over. No blue's station, one Jazz and classical station.

In my car I have an old 60GB iPod with all the music I like and set it to shuffle.
 
The title of the article is misleading. Norway shut down their "national" FM broadcasting in favor of digital signals. Local FM stations, read privately owned, continue to broadcast frequency modulation signals.
 
thanks for that clarification . absolutely love FM radio and listen a great deal using a massive aeriel . real good sound . UK is a long way off shutdown as even cars often don`t come with digital and it has to be retro fitted
 
Glad to hear this is not about FM being completely shut down in any country. That would be a sad day even if these stations subscribed to sat-transmission.
 
I agree, as much as I criticize our local FM I would hate to see the day we couldn't get local information, and for free.

I kept my XM up for a long time, I enjoyed an avenue to listen to a number of genres and pick up on new music (did I mention I criticize local FM), I had to depart ways when I got tired of them screwing up the billing. When will corps ever figure customer sevice is a real aspect of staying in business.
 
joeinid said:
I do enjoy am/fm in the car while driving. My SiriusXM subscription ran out a long time ago and I don’t feel like renewing it. I enjoy am/fm and my radio even has HD radio but that can be hit or miss. Seems like we’ll be in the dark, technology wise, should any disasters hit.
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In the car I have to have Sirius as a minimum.I can't remember last time I listened to am/fm locale.
 
SiriusXM sounds terrible. More often than not it comes through as very thin. I received the 1 year free deal in my BMW and I’ve only used it a couple of times.


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No issues with Sirius XM, sounds pretty good in the Lexus and my truck., I wasn't looking for some "audiophile" sound after all highway noise and wind blowing in the vehicle can't help the quality, but the channel selection sure beats FM.
 
I’m lucky to have some great radio in Minneapolis. The Current is Minnesota Public Radio’s main channel and it’s fantastic. The offer live streaming for free at thecurrent.org


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I still listen to a lot of FM (doing so as we speak). I find the 88-92 band to be the best and there are a few good major stations in the rest of the band here in Chicago. However I find much better content when I'm in smaller markets that aren't all Clear Channel owned with the same recycled songs every few hours. I also listen to XM at home, I realize the quality isn't the best, but it's a good change of pace and some of the shows are pretty good when the production isn't horrible with the levels between the DJ, callers and music all being vastly different.
 
That would be a bummer in the USA. Iam assuming FM also means AM. There are a lot of AM news stations in the USA that give an alternative view to the very liberal FM outlets.
 
No need to panic. The FM frequency band traditionally used by radio stations is analog and will eventually be used for other purposes. In exchange, the radio stations will be transmitting in digital mode using a different spectrum. You will not need cable or subscription to listen. But you will need a radio that can decode digital signals. Most radios sold today (including radios in cars) already can do that now.
 
Kingrex said:
That would be a bummer in the USA. Iam assuming FM also means AM. There are a lot of AM news stations in the USA that give an alternative view to the very liberal FM outlets.
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No worries. AM radio is totally different than FM and will not be affected. That's because AM uses a completely different frequency spectrum.
 
This is no different than what happened to TV years ago. Today, TVs are transmitting digitally and you need TVs that can decode the digital signals.
 
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