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Australian capital cities have DAB+ digital radio, which carries many programs through a single transmitter. For regional areas where most commercial stations have an AM and an FM transmitter.
Since AM has poor quality sound these stations have become "talk" stations and FM "music" stations. In the USA/Mexico they have HDRadio on the FM band which has one good quality sound channel and up to 3 additional poor quality sound channels.
In country areas the current pair of programs could be transmitted by a single Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) in the VHF band transmitter carrying 3 music quality programs through a single transmitter.
So, with DAB+/DRM what program format, what would be preferred. It would be possible to mix music with talk? Would this be popular?
I understand that currently digital radio listening is only in capital cities where only around 30 % listen this way. Norway has no main networks of FM or AM and 1 year after switch off listening numbers returned to usual.