Pre-developments starts within EBU.
First Field Trial at Bern/Interlaken, Switzerland.
Tests start in Stockholm, Sweden Evaluation of eight systems in Helsinki.
RDS Baseband Coding agreed Second Field Trial at Bern/Interlaken.
Industry/Broadcasters meeting at EBU.
Industry/Broadcaster Field Trial in Munich, Germany.
RDS adopted by EBU and Industry - submitted to CCIR.
First US presentation of RDS in Detroit.
Ford starts RDS car radio development.
RDS Specification EBU 3244 published.
Large scale pre-operational trial in Germany.
EBU recommends RDS introduction.
Industry/Broadcasters confirm first receivers and broadcast services to start
in 1987.
First presentation of RDS at NAB in Dallas.
RDS as CCIR (now ITU-R) Recommendation published.
First RDS logo created by BBC published by EBU.
Ireland, France and Sweden introduce RDS.
First RDS Receivers shown at IFA Berlin.
Volvo markets World’s first RDS Car Radio.
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy and UK introduce RDS. Blaupunkt,
Grundig and Philips manufacture RDS Car Radios.
BBC creates new RDS logo for EBU. EBU recommends use of new RDS logo instead
of the old one from 1986.
RDS enhancements: EON developed and tested in UK.
Portugal, Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland introduce RDS.
Presentation of RDS in Washington DC and at NAB Las Vegas, USA.
First presentation of RDS at Broadcast Asia, Singapore and in South Africa. RDS European Standard CENELEC EN 50067:1990 published.
RDS EON Receivers shown at IFA.
Hong Kong introduces RDS.
First presentation of RDS in China.
South Africa introduces RDS.
RDS European Standard updated - CENELEC EN 50067:1992 published.
Products in USA will also use RDS name and logo (created by BBC in 1986, redesigned
in 1988).
RBDS Standard published in the USA.
RDS portable radios become available.
RDS Forum created by EBU.
RBDS promoted at Consumer Electronics Show, Chicago.
RDS-TMC endorsed by EC.
DGPS first implemented in Sweden.
RDS/RBDS standards harmonized. Some differences remain nevertheless.
CENELEC EN 50067:1998 – Newly updated RDS standard published. ODA is part of
it.
RDS Forum is becoming independent of the EBU and established as a not-for profit industry association in Geneva.
RDS CENELEC standard EN 50067:1998 is re-issued as IEC standard 62106 – Edition 1.
Updated RBDS standard is published as NRSC-4-A.
RT+ is agreed in RDS Forum as an important enhancement.
FM/RDS radio starts to be increasingly used in mobile phones, small music players
and short-range transmission devices.
For FM/RDS radio IC chips the market growth becomes gigantic. Over 100 million
of these chips are made within one year.
Broadcasters in Germany start to use RadioText Plus (RT+).
Broadcasters in the USA start to use RT+.
25th anniversary of the publication of the first EBU specification of RDS.
Updated RDS IEC standard 62106 – Edition 2 is published.
RT+ is implemented in iPod nano (5G).
Over 600 million FM/RDS radio ICs are now made within one year.
Issue Date 22 August 2010
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