Grant Broadcasters hiring more journalists: Alison Cameron
14 May 2021 · News
radioinfo continues the conversation with the CEO of Grant Broadcasters, Alison Cameron.
This week we talk about news and information content plus social media.
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I wish to complement Alison Grant on her approach. I have the following questions;
1. In her licence areas have local newspapers largely disappeared?
2. ABC local radio studios cover a region not a district, so how does your news compare with theirs?
3. What has been the audience reaction to the addition of an FM simulcast to your AM stations?
4. Digital Radio has a Journaline function. It could be used as an electronic newspaper on the screen of a radio.
https://www.drm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DRM-Handbook-Version-5.pdf page 30. Stories are transmitted as they are generated and the listeners select them as they wish from the memory in the receiver, so have instant access. The text can surround photos. Receivers do remember favourites and broadcasters can get receivers to display and delete messages at a time determined by the broadcaster.
Journaline is available for DAB+ in our capital cities although few receivers can display it. It is integrated into DRM receivers. DRM has a coverage area larger than DAB+ and FM using the abandoned TV channels 0, 1 and 2. For country broadcasters their two programs can be transmitted from a single DRM transmitter in full stereo along with journaline and slideshow images which fill the screen for advertising and visual information.
In India there is now 3 million new vehicles where DRM receivers were installed on the production line at no extra cost to the buyer.
Particularly in areas where local newspapers have disappeared would this be attractive to broadcasters for live news without needing to use a phone, tablet or computer?