RDS will remain important to FM broadcasters for at least another 10 - 15 years. As the RDS Forum has now mostly members from the industry, it is relatively easy to get support for innovative RDS features like RT+ in new receiver products. However, the industry needs confirmation from the broadcasters that the new RDS features will effectively be soon widely used and there is a critical market size to be met. Both, broadcasters and industry need to co-operate in the RDS Forum on this particular business objective. To achieve this, the RDS Forum needs more broadcasters to join the RDS Forum 2010. This will be in their own interest.
For this year's annual RDS Forum meeting in June 2010 special preferential conditions to join the meeting apply to broadcasters of national importance in Europe. A circular letter, dated April 2010, is outlining this special offer.
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Johnny Beerling and Dietmar Kopitz elaborated a broad presentation looking at these particular problems, specifically from the broadcaster's point of view. Note also that Johnny Beerling was for long time at the helm of BBC Radio 1 and Dietmar Kopitz the Chief Engineer of the EBU for many years. Thus both RDS experts know very well, what they are talking about.
| Here you can download a PDF document (1246 kB) containing this presentation. |  |