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Author Topic: Norway Will Be the First Country to Turn Off FM Radio in 2017  (Read 983 times)

Offline ChrisSmolinski

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Norway Will Be the First Country to Turn Off FM Radio in 2017
« on: April 19, 2015, 2252 UTC »
Norway’s Minister of Culture announced this week that a national FM-radio switch off will commence in 2017, allowing the country to complete its transition over to digital radio. It’s the end of an era.

Full article: http://gizmodo.com/norway-will-be-the-first-country-to-turn-off-fm-radio-i-1698797593
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Re: Norway Will Be the First Country to Turn Off FM Radio in 2017
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2015, 0036 UTC »
I will do all I can to reverse this. There's gotta be a petition out there somewhere. All countries should have FM radio because not all can afford DAB+ radios. Norway, I'm disappointed in you.
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