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Digital Radio: Small Guys' Ruin?

Date: October 18, 2002
Author: Brad King
QUOTE: The noise big radio conglomerates are making about digital radio is likely to drown out community radio stations -- dashing small broadcasters' hopes that the new technology would boost their signal.

ABSTRACT: As technology advances, small radio broadcasters have been left out in the cold.  Protections that benefit small broadcasters are slowly disappearing and larger stations are encroaching. The switch from analogue to digital signals, approved by the Federal Communications Commission, has not improved the small broadcaster's plight as they had hoped.  Unlike the change that occurred with digital television, radio is not offering more space for more programming so that these small broadcasters can better compete with the larger conglomerates.
--- Kathleen Hom

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