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With the evolving technologies and continuous research in the broadcasting domain, the working scenario has witnessed a major shift from the conventional means. Well, the television broadcasting is fuming with HD and 3D, for Radio the US has sought refuge in HD Radio and the European and the Asian region is shifting towards the DRM model.

Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) is the one of the standardised system for digital broadcasting of radio that aims to provide affordable digital quality of sound and data services to the radio listeners for MW and SW bands.

India’s national broadcaster, the All India Radio (AIR) is one such radio broadcasters that has already adopted the DRM standard and has installed a 250 kW short wave transmitter at its Khampur facility in Delhi.

Expanding on this offering, AIR has placed an order for the supply of two 1000 kilowatt DRM capable medium wave transmitters with DRM Consortium. These will be deployed at Chinsurah (West Bengal) and Rajkot (Gujrat) facilities of AIR replacing the analogue transmitters.

The order is a step by the national radio broadcaster, having the widest reach in India, to digitize its operations and switchover from the existing analogue transmission facility. During the recently concluded BES Expo 2010, held in the national capital, AIR marked out that the broadcaster intends have more than 40 DRM capable transmitters replacing/upgrading its analogue transmitters.