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The Switchovers
2017The world's first national FM switch-off was not a single event. It was eleven separate cutovers, one geography at a time, completed across an entire calendar year.
Read the eleven cutovers
The angle is operational: how a single master-control room at Marienlyst managed a sequenced shutdown across the country's geography.
Photo: Skylar Kang / PexelsThe Switchovers
Describes Switzerland's completion of its DAB+ migration in 2024, including the OFCOM decision timeline and the distinction between national and regional FM retention.
The angle is comparative: what Switzerland did differently from Norway and why the Swiss timetable ran seven years later.
Photo: FernsehturmBantiger · Wikimedia CommonsListening
Examines Android Auto and CarPlay as the dominant in-car radio interfaces and what their adoption means for DAB+, HD Radio, and streaming relative to analogue FM, drawing on automobile manufacturer data and published Ofcom and Edison Research listening surveys.
The angle is displacement: the platform that controls the car screen controls the morning commute.
Photo: Viralyft / PexelsThe Money
Explains the US digital audio performance right established by the Digital Performance in Sound Recordings Act of 1995, SoundExchange's role as the statutory collective, and the explicit terrestrial-radio exemption that iHeartMedia's terrestrial stations have always benefited from — drawing on SoundExchange's published annual reports and the Copyright Act text.
The angle is the asymmetry: two broadcasters running the same song at the same moment, one paying and one not.
Photo: SoundExchange logo · Wikimedia CommonsThe Groups
Covers the leveraged-buyout debt load accumulated by Clear Channel Communications after the 2008 Bain Capital / Thomas H.
The angle is the arithmetic: the company was profitable at the operating level throughout and the filing was a balance-sheet problem, not a revenue problem.
Photo: Magda Ehlers / PexelsThe Switchovers · no date
The United States has a functioning digital radio standard, a growing receiver base, and no date on which analogue FM will stop.
Read what stands instead of a dateNorway and Switzerland have ended national FM. Denmark, the United Kingdom and Germany are migrating without a fixed date; France and Italy have ruled that FM stays.
Four decisions, four different instruments
| Year | Territory | What was decided | Instrument |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Norway | National FM networks closed; local FM kept | Storting decision, NRK rollout schedule |
| 2024 | Switzerland | SRG SSR ends FM transmission | OFCOM decision timeline |
| 2020 | Germany | New car radios must receive DAB+ | Telekommunikationsgesetz, BNetzA notice |
| United Kingdom | No switch-off confirmed | Coverage-and-listening threshold |
Eight capitals, each linked to the piece that carries its decision.
Supporters, continued
Rods Room delivers unfiltered reception — no compression, no apology.
Evil Angel runs its own broadcast schedule — filth, curated daily.
ASMR Fantasy knows what DAB+ engineers know: clarity changes everything.
NFBusty delivers full signal, no compression needed.
Tiny4K proves small formats still pack the biggest punch.
My Family Pies proves the most compelling content hides behind closed doors.
