Digital Radio Summit 2015

11th February 2015

EBU, Geneva
2014’s Achievements
Our main activities
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Technical Standards
International Recognition
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Original Standards
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Converging
RadioVIS and RadioEPG were derived from existing
ETSI Standards
DAB Slideshow - TS 101 499
DAB EPG - TS 102 818
WorldDMB wanted to make support for Hybrid DAB
easier
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Converging
RadioDNS re-written in ETSI format
RadioVIS and DAB Slideshow merged
RadioEPG and DAB EPG merged
No loss of functionality in any case
Fewer chances of divergence or contradictions
Stability and recognition of ETSI Standards
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New Standards
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Thanks
A considerable amount of editorial work was required
to get these standards produced.
Special thanks to:
Ben Poor, Global Radio (UK)
Lindsay Cornell, BBC
Trademarks
Trust in Technology
Trademark Registrations
‘RadioDNS Hybrid Radio®’
Trademark Registrations

United Kingdom European Norway Switzerland Canada U.S.A. Australia

Union

RadioDNS In In On In
Registered Registered Registered
Hybrid Radio® Progress Progress Hold Progress

In In
Registered Registered Registered Registered Registered
Progress Progress

Registered In Progress Held

Trademark Licences
Subject to passing our test regime, we’ll licence:
Manufacturers to use on devices
Broadcasters / Service Providers to use on content
production systems
FRNDZ - Fair, Reasonable, Non-Discriminatory and
Zero Cost
 Events
Evangelising Hybrid Radio
Events in 2014
February March April June

Digital Radio Summit RadioDays Europe NAB Show Broadcast Asia

July September October November

Lokalrundfunktage IBC Radio Festival WorldDMB General

Assembly
NAB RadioShow National Radio
Conference Telematics Update
On Tour
Marketing & Demonstrations
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Working Teams
Developing new standards
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Working Teams
Develop new functionality / standards
Open to all members to join
Others may be invited to join
Work under our IPR Policy
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RadioTAG
Andy Buckingham, Togglebit
 Real world experience
● Hear something you like? Press a button.
● Explore that content now or later on your
smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop.
● What you see is not specific, broadcasters are free
to choose
● Link to track, artist biog, music video, advertisers
page, transcript, articles...
WiFi Code: 3279
 BBC Playlister

WiFi Code: 3279

In to 2015
● Approve the integration of CPA
● Consider moving the API responses to a JSON
format
● Syndication
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RadioWEB
Alex Erk, IRT
2015 Plan
Our Year Ahead
2015 Strategy
Increase the number of active broadcasters
Improve our testing tools
Grow the membership
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Project Logo
Minimum Meta-Data
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Project Logo
Manufacturers want assurances of take-up
Confident to design new UIs for radio
Project Logo encourages more broadcasters to
produce minimum static meta-data sets
Lowest point of entry to RadioDNS
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Impact on User Interface

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Project Logo
Service Providers

RadioDNS
Project
Office

Membership Organisations
Broadcasters
/ National Projects
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Current Status
UK & Germany - Radioplayer project will also provide
Project Logo meta-data
EBU - will provide for all their members’ stations
CRA - is investigating a solution for their members
AER - members have expressed support
Test & Demonstration
Verifying Hybrid Radio Implementations
Test & Demonstration
An on-line platform to validate RadioDNS
implementations
Devices that use content
Platforms / Services that publish content
Will check lookups, visuals and EPG functionality
Extensive but not exhaustive
Access
Members can have ‘fair-use’ access to the platform for
free
Non-members will pay an annual fee to access the
platform
We will keep usage levels under review
Membership
Growing in 2015
Membership
Currently (2015) - 24 Members
AUDI A.G. is our newest member
We would like to recruit
More broadcaster organisations
More automotive manufacturers
Target - 5 new members at start of 2016.
Member Benefits
Members are co-owners of RadioDNS
Participation in standards definition
Free use of Test & Demonstration platform
Marketing and event staging
Priority support from the Project Office
Membership costs £2,700 / €3,200
 Thank You
Nick Piggott, Chair, RadioDNS
feedback@radiodns.org