Joint public hearing on radio in the digital age: sphere of activity of the European Union organised by the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport with the participation of Giuseppe Gargani and Jenny Abramsky, Director of Radio BBC (UK).

digital single market (T)

public hearing

Committee on Culture and Education

GARGANI, Giuseppe (EPP, IT)

Joint public hearing on radio in the digital age: extract of the public hearing - CULT Committee

SOUNDBITE (Italian), Giuseppe GARGANI (EPP, IT), wondering which consequences the passage from analogic to digital radio can have for small radio stations

SOUNDBITE (English), Jenny Abramsky, Director of Radio BBC (UK), on the BBC being the pioneer on the EUREKA 147 DAV partnership

SOUNDBITE (English), Jenny Abramsky, Director of Radio BBC (UK), on the investments of the BBC but without follow-up on the market. Since 1995 only 3000 digital radio sets have been sold. Demanding a consorted effort of the producers and legislators to solve the problem.

SOUNDBITE (English), Jenny Abramsky, Director of Radio BBC (UK),  And underlining that the combined efforts on European cooperation regarding mobile telephone should be repeated for digital radio. Stating the important competition of the US via Internet and that there is a real danger that the US will dominate the market