All India Radio station chose broadcasting in digital, but DRM

Broadcast using digital technology to be decided in the coming years the Asian station All India Radio (AIR). For its spreading, however, did not choose standard DAB, DAB +, respectively, but the DRM. Stations used for signal distribution MW. Transmitters operating in this frequency range is 145 with a total output of 13 MW . AIR signal station receives 98.4% of the total Indian population of 1.3 billion people. Thirty-five transmitters have power over 7 MW and that they are gradually replaced by DRM distributions. Thirty of them have already broadcast digitally.

The remaining transmitters will continue to operate analog and serve students who failed to secure income through DRM. In the digital broadcast distribution is also a complementary service, which of course is not available on the analog AM receivers, even within the FM distribution. To digital mode will soon be four other stations, which hitherto were not in operation.