United Kingdom radio listeners may not know it but they’ll be listening to a new digital radio broadcast platform from now on.
Arquiva, the U.K.’s exclusive digital broadcast infrastructure company, has been working over the last few years to refurbish the whole DAB multiplex.
Take it away Arqiva Chief Technology Officer Dom Wedgewood, “Completing the migration of all 62 multiplexes and more than 1,000 services onto our new platform strengthens the resilience and future-readiness of the U.K.’s DAB network, while delivering substantial improvements in efficiency and sustainability. For our radio customers, this means a more robust, efficient and future-ready platform for the services they rely on us to deliver every day.”
The numbers are impressive: “Annual electricity consumption has fallen from approximately 1,324 MWh to 168 MWh — an 87% reduction — while estimated carbon emissions have reduced from around 173 tons of CO2e to 22 tons,” according to the announcement.
Plus, “more than 300 studio encoders across 75 sites, 200+ decoders across 100+ network distribution sites and over 100 racks of legacy equipment are being responsibly decommissioned and recycled through certified partners.”
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