The author is chairman of Digital Radio Mondiale.
A picture is worth a thousand words and a digital radio coverage map might be worth a million dollars or more in business.
We might stress in documents and presentations the undeniable benefits of digital radio: Better audio, extra data, more choice, emergency warning capability and less spectrum. For DRM specifically the list also includes, the capacity to offer improved audio and data for large or local coverage very often using the existing basic infrastructure.
This can be illustrated with audio and can be doubled by screen grabs showing data, like names, colorful pictures of singers and albums, stock exchange values, etc. This is often impressive but not as easily understood as a map.
CORRECT REPRESENTATION
To many of those interested, a big global map showing the progress of one or another digital audio…
