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Signo y Pensamiento

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VALENCIA RINCON, Juan Carlos. Digital radio: Social demand or new arena for the struggles of global capitalism?. Signo pensam. [online]. 2008, vol.27, n.52, pp.110-119. ISSN 0120-4823.

Since the end of the eighties, different manufacturers of radio broadcasting equipment, together with some governments, have been developing new digital technology in order to modernize radio broadcasting. The goal is to replace short-wave systems, AM and FM. After two decades of effort and numerous investments, various standards began to emerge and become implemented such as DAB, HD radio, and DRM. These standards came from Europe, North America, and Asia. Selection and implementation of the technology of digital radio transmission is a process that is forever more vertiginous and is developed almost behind closed doors sans the desired democratic debate, a process that takes into account only a few hegemonic groups and in which conflicts among great global companies are witnessed. Add to that supranational economic blocks that try to impose their technology and styles of the radio broadcasting industry in order to enjoy competitive advantages. The adoption of this new technology along with the respective communicative models, can have a considerable impact on the Latin American radio medium both in commercial radio and in public and educational radio. This paper seeks to identify and describe the basic characteristics of the emerging digital radio standards.

Keywords : Digital radio; DAB; DRM; HD Radio; Globalization.

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