A BBC-backed radio streaming application with the potential of allowing users access to audio content from more than 400 stations nationwide is to launch in December. The first working version of the UK Radioplayer project – dubbed “the iPlayer for radio” – was unveiled at the annual Radio Festival in Salford. Content from about 50 […]

2015 is ‘achievable’ for an analogue-to-digital switchover, according to industry body Digital Radio UK.  CEO Ford Ennals told the Radio Festival that there had been “significant progress towards building momentum for digital radio,” and added that the analogue-to-digital switchover was a “matter of when not if”. Ennals stressed that a target date of 2015 was […]

The BBC is addressing the questionable quality of its online radio streams with the launch of HD Sound, a new high-definition netcast technology. Due for Radio 3 in December, and to be available on selected programming on the BBC’s other radio channels starting with the Electric Proms on Radio 2 later this month, HD Sound […]