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Quincy, IL, and Paris - Apr 7, 2006 - Broadcast Electronics (BE) has installed an HD Radio™ FM system on an independent station in Paris, France. Towercast, in partnership with independent broadcast syndicate SIRTI and NRJ Group, began broadcasting an HD Radio™ signal on 88.2MHz last week using a BE low-powered transmission system. In the next phase of the trials, Towercast plans to multicast two or more channels of programming.
"As a group, we're very interested in the HD Radio™ technology because it lets us move right into digital broadcasting without giving up analog," said Anders Rällvik, who is the technical lead for testing digital technology for Towercast. "I believe we’re the first broadcaster to use HD Radio™ live, 24 hours in Europe."
Towercast, a subsidiary of NRJ Group, is the first privately held French tower company, managing several hundred elevated points for the transmission of radio broadcasts (FM, DAB), digital terrestrial TV, telecommunications (UMTS, BLR) and professional radio. Towercast is present in Finland with its subsidiary Telemast and in Belgium with Towercast Belgium.
SIRTI is a professional organization of 123 independent local and regional broadcasting operators. NRJ Group is a European broadcast group with four major radio networks in France and a TV station.
Towercast is broadcasting HD Radio™ with a test license granted by Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), France's broadcast authority. CSA has also granted Towercast an experimental license to broadcast HD Radio™ on 93.9MHz, and the group will begin broadcasting a single channel of digital audio on that frequency in the next month. It will eventually add another program channel to test HD Radio™ multicasting as well as any channel spacing interference.
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