Last night (late Saturday 30th September / early morning Sunday 01st October 2017) we began the process of moving our web-site to a new hosting provider. DNS name-servers were switched at about 10:00 (BST) this morning and by the end…
Changes to Future Plus+ DAB Service
On June the 01st 2016, Future Digital Norfolk Limited, started a series of technical changes to the Future Plus+ service. The first step in the process is to reduce the bit rate of the service from 160 kbps (stereo) down…
Further Arqiva Norfolk DAB Problems
Last Monday (21st March 2016) the Norfolk County DAB Multiplex, operated by Arqiva on behalf of Now Digital, suffered a major transmission outage for the second time this year. Although available information is limited, (the BBC Engineering Web-Site merely stated…
Arqiva Norfolk DAB Problems
The Norfolk County DAB Multiplex, operated by Arqiva on behalf of Now Digital, was off air between approximately 09:45 yesterday (Monday the 11th of January 2016) and 02:00 this morning (Tuesday the 12th of January). In two further separate incidents,…
Markham Tower DAB Transmitter Issues
Since the morning of Saturday the 05th of December, we’ve been experiencing breaks in our DAB transmissions from our Markham Tower broadcasting site. At the time of writing, we’re not sure what the underlying cause of these failures is. We’ve…
FuturePlus+ Test Transmissions
This afternoon (Sunday 01st November 2015) we ran some test tone and royalty free music transmissions on the FuturePlus+ DAB channel. These tests were to check the operation of our ‘Airtime’ programme audio play-out system and its compatibility with ‘BUTT’…
Web-Site Update
We updated the Future Digital Norfolk web-site over the last week of October, moving it to the new domain at: www.futuredigital.info/ The move went smoothly apart from some issues with SMTP, firewall and htaccess configuration on the new server. These…
More Music For Norwich!
Future Digital Norfolk plans to bring several new radio broadcast radio services to the Norwich area, operating on DAB digital radio. Ofcom, the UK broadcast radio regulator is currently looking into the possibility of adding a new tier of smaller-scale…