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Within the EU regulatory framework, licensees for commercial radio broadcasting may be charged a fee to ensure optimal allocation of scarce resources but not to maximize public revenues. While radio licence renewal occurs in many EU countries, an objective, model-based approach for setting licence fees has not been used so far. In this paper, it is described how such a fee can be determined for the purpose of licence renewal or extension. National and regional Dutch FM licences were valued, taking into account that simulcast broadcasting of digital and analogue radio is obligatory upon extension. Licences are valued using discounted cash flow methodology, whereby the cash flows of an averagely efficient entrant are taken as the benchmark for valuation of each individual licence. Cash flows during the licence period 2011–2017 are forecast based on generalized least squares regressions, using financial variables of Dutch radio stations for the years 2004–2008. Separately, bottom-up cost and investment models are used to calculate analogue and digital distribution costs. This results in a value per licence, based on objective licence characteristics, which can be used to set licence fees if administrative renewal or extension is opted for instead of a new auction or beauty contest.

How does historical fiction create a world for readers to inhabit? Drawing upon contemporary convergence theory that traces how stories move across concurrent media platforms, this essay enacts a multimodal approach to Bruce Holsinger’s historical novel The Invention of Fire across two mediums: the printed text and the audiobook. Holsinger’s mystery uses an increasingly blind poet John Gower as its sleuth-protagonist, and I consider how the text’s first-person narration and shifting rhetoric of blindness convey the sensory experience of a lost medieval past. The audiobook voice narration by Simon Vance further remediates the story’s tropes of oral performance, and a broader history of ‘talking books’ for blind readers reveals how sensory experience and embodied knowledge are constructed by technology and environment.

Artikeln skriver in sig i det mångdisciplinära forskningsfält som intresserar sig för ungas livsvillkor och kulturella uttryck i stigmatiserade bostadsområden i svenska storstäder. Under senare år har en mobilisering med krav på social rättvisa växt fram i dessa områden. I denna artikel undersöker vi innehållet i fyra poddar som kan betraktas som viktiga i denna sociala mobilisering. Studien har tre specifika syften, som också ringar in dess kunskaps­bidrag. För det första undersöker vi hur ortenpoddar, det vill säga poddar som handlar om orten och är producerade av unga därifrån, kan ses som uttryck för hur marginaliserade unga handskas med den rasifiering och underordnade klassposition som är en del av deras uppväxtvillkor. För det andra visar vår analys hur poddar fungerar som mötesplatser för unga i den marginaliserade förorten såväl som arenor för motstånd i form av motoffentligheter. För det tredje bidrar studien med kunskap om poddars folkbildande potential genom att analysera de folkbildande läroprocesser som kommer till uttryck i de utvalda ortenpoddar som utgör artikelns material.

Purpose - The diffusion of digital radio has experienced more challenges than for digital TV regarding a digital switchover. The purpose of this paper shows on the specific case of Germany, which difficulties the digital sound broadcasting technology of Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) has been facing from several points of view. The difficulties are reviewed and outlined to overcoming different barriers and to facilitating its diffusion. Design/methodology/approach - The paper analyses how the diffusion of digital radio is perceived by industry representatives such as radio consultants and several stakeholders along the value chain of the radio industry. In semi-structured interviews, participants describe and evaluate the challenges for DAB as digital audio broadcasting standard mainly in Germany. Findings - After two decades of deploying digital radio in Germany, its success is still missing. Various very different aspects have prevented the diffusion of the new technology. Among various barriers, the radio industry sees missing benefits, marketing errors and a lack of inter-industrial collaboration as barriers in a retro-perspective. Research limitations/implications - The analysis does not cover other countries, where DAB as standard was introduced. Also other standards for digital radio are not considered. Practical implications - With referring to barriers for digital radio, there is a scope for those countries about to introduce the technology to troubleshoot the failings of overcoming barrier. An idea can emerge, how authorities and industrial stakeholders can help to facilitate the diffusion of digital radio. It also indicates the need of governmental interaction for the coordination of a technology introduction in a network industry. Social implications - The theoretical model, referred to, gives a good overview of potential diffusion barriers as most identified problems for the German case. The model and the illustrated problems of the paper can be used in practice to manage potential diffusion problems during technology introductions. Originality/value - There is a lack of published information about the faced challenges for the diffusion of digital radio. The retro-perspective benefits from the broad experience of participants having observed the challenges of the past decade with DAB in Germany. Additionally, the results are mapped to a theoretical framework with limits for the diffusion of innovation for generalising.

Westwood One, America's largest producer and distributor of radio programming, announced Wednesday that under an agreement it has reached with Gosteleradio, the Soviet Union's state radio and television broadcasting system, and StoryFirst, the largest distributor of Western entertainment products to the USSR, it has become the first American company to produce original, regularly scheduled commercial programming for broadcast on Soviet radio. Westwood One is the parent company of the Mutual Broadcasting System and the NBC Radio Networks. (excerpt)

New digital audio broadcast receivers are currently available in the UK. However, their appearance in the US is hindered by several factors: the US government's insistence that digital broadcasts use the same frequencies as AM and FM, and a fear that it might restructure the economy of the broadcasting industry.

Something strange is happening. On the one hand, in classrooms up and down the country, we are seeking to encourage students to engage with and use ICT effectively. At the same time we impose all manner of fines, bans and restrictions on the use of mobile communications technology OK, mobile phones! I wonder how many lessons in both business and economics use mobile phone companies and mobile phone service providers as case studies for an array of business and economics concepts and learning objects? Despite this, the dreaded mobile phone is the cause of many a disruption to a lesson and even to examination sessions as yet another tasteless, if increasingly sophisticated, ring tone fills the hall. This article looks at ways of starting to educate our students in the use of this technology for more than downloading the latest chart hit or arranging the weekend nightclub activity mobile learning. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]