Talk:BBC National DAB

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Reasoning - BBC Radio 3 is no longer broadcast at 160kbps full time, so the arguments presented and factually incorrect. I have added notes re 5live sports extra though.

Note
Radio 4 LW On DAB only covers Yesterday In Parliament and The Daily Service. When this occurs Radio 4 is reduced to 80 kbits/sec in mono rather than joint stereo.

On 6 July 2006 (or thereabouts) the BBC permanently reduced the bit rate transmission of BBC Radio 3 from 192 kbit/s to 160 kbit/s. The resulting degradation of audio quality has prompted a number of complaints being made to the Corporation.

Broadcasting BBC Five Live Sports Extra requires reducing the bit rate of other networks; since the launch of Sports Extra, the BBC frequently reduced Radio 3 to 160 kbit/s when Five Live Sports Extra is on air. This was still considerably higher than any other BBC network. Recently, Radio 3's bit rate has been permanently reduced to 160 kbit/s instead of returning to 192 kbit/s once the sports commentary is over. The reason for this is that the BBC have introduced a non-stop repeating trail, at 32 kbit/s, promoting BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra. This effectively keeps Sports Extra on air even when there is no sports coverage. According to the BBC Annual Report 2005-2006, the station only broadcast for a total of 1,209 hours (an average of just over 23 hours per week) last year whereas the trail runs permanently, using bandwidth previously allocated to Radio 3, except when there is a sports commentary.

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BBC DAB National → BBC National DAB
I have moved the article to BBC National DAB, considering all the sources I can find, the Wohnort DAB directory and the data on the BBC's national ensemble all state the name of the ensemble as BBC National DAB. I expect no objection to the move (hence I was bold and moved the article). --tgheretford (talk) 23:37, 15 August 2009 (UTC)