Matthew Phillips This is one in a series about trends in global radio. Matthew Phillips is product director at the U.K.-based IC supplier CML Micro and a vice-chairman of Digital Radio Mondiale. Radio World: What is the company’s involvement with DRM? Matthew Phillips: CML Micro has developed a highly integrated and low-power DRM-capable receiver module for DRM radio manufacturers to use. The DRM1000 module is the technology core of a consumer DRM-capable radio receiver and can be used by any manufacturer to develop and produce DRM receivers quickly. The device has many leading technical features, and we hope that by making DRM radio attractive to use, simple to operate and cost-effective we can make DRM available to a worldwide audience regardless of income or location. This interview is from the free ebook “Global Radio Update.” RW: What are the most important broad recent changes or trends for radio transmission and technology platforms around the world? Phillips: Understanding how radio broadcasting and internet audio streaming coexist and flourish in their own strengths together is a major challenge. Internet streaming has its uses for on-demand type services. On-demand services require a user’s active selection and attention. However what is sometimes ignored is that curated content — put together more intelligently that random playlists made by machine algorithms — that we can consume while busy, or mass society uniting content such as sports events free to air, are much better delivered over broadcast radio. Truly reaching all the world’s population and indeed reaching populations in times of crisis are again the province of radio. Radio needs to make this case forcefully to not be damaged by the rise of digital “slop content.” RW: What do you consider the key recent advancements for DRM? Phillips: The use of DRM for remote education or so-called e-learning is of great social importance. I hope we will see a much wider understand across emerging nations of the power of DRM to bring education to millions of children who currently miss their schooling for many reasons. Education is the key to a stable better future for all of humanity, and DRM can help that process. The vital support that DRM-based radio can bring to emergency and crisis management is needed urgently, particularly as the climate crisis shows its effect more frequently each year. Finally the fact that DRM receivers have now become small enough, low-power enough, and cost-effective… [TheTopNews] Read More.
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