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RadioDNS Presented to RDS Forum

Nick Piggott — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:10:01 +0000

The RDS Forum, who oversee the worldwide deployment of RDS and RBDS technologies, recently held their annual meeting at Glion, Switzerland.

NickPiggott of Global Radio presented the RadioDNS concept to the forum (download the PDF of the presentation – RadioDNS and Apps – RDS Forum – June 2009), and took questions from the delegates representing broadcasters and device manufacturers from Europe and North America.

The RadioDNS Project was warmly welcomed as a valuable extension of the RDS/RBDS standards, and members were encouraged to become involved with the project.

RadioDNS in Australia

Nick Piggott — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:26:50 +0000

RadioDNS was part of a presentation given by James Cridland (BBC) and Nick Piggott (Global Radio) to the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Local Radi0 Conference in Canberra.

James and Nick also met representatives of the Australian radio industry, both public service and commercial broadcasters, to explain the RadioDNS project. Feedback was extremely positive, and it looks likely that there will be Australian representation in the project shortly.

The BBC’s Radio Labs discusses RadioDNS

jamescridland — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:25:58 +0000

Nick Piggott and I discuss RadioDNS on the BBC’s Radio Labs blog:

That FM radio in your mobile phone could, if it wanted to, connect to the internet to discover more about what it’s listening to. The DAB radio in that wifi radio you have at home can similarly connect to the web to get lots of information about the current broadcast. And listening to radio on your MP3 player could interact with the internet when it docks to your PC. In short, there are a lot of radio sets hidden within connected devices.

Read the entire post at BBC Radio Labs

RadioDNS in Scandinavia

jamescridland — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:31:24 +0000

My colleague Nick Piggott has been speaking about RadioTAG in Scandinavia. He writes:

James and I covered a bunch of subjects and projects that have come out of radio in the UK – things that we believe are innovative for listeners and advertisers*, and demonstrate how radio can use technology sympathetically to really improve the experience without undermining the core attributes that radio is loved for. So we talked about mi-XFM, RadioPop, Tagging, Visualisation, EPG, Text Information, Olinda – all useful milestones in the timeline of radio’s development.

What we both wanted to emphasise is that not only is it possible for public service and commercial radio companies to collaborate, it’s essential for the future development of radio. Individual companies alone can’t influence the direction of technology (not even the BBC), and consumer electronic companies need to see European sized markets to start integrating radio cleverly into devices. So I hope that what we showed was the practical benefits of Agree on Technology, Compete on Content.

Read his full blog entry