Last update: The result of more than 30 hearings and consultations with the main players in radio, Arcom has published its White Paper on the future of radio in France, which provides a broad overview of the sector and its economic, legal and technical aspects, as well as changes in usage.
Arcom is proposing a two-phase trajectory, aiming to achieve predominantly digital broadcasting by the end of and requiring the mobilisation of the entire ecosystem:. Read more on the Arcom website. Download the English-language summary. It is a means to preserve diversity and plurality. The economics of radio are a key element of the expected white paper, as well as the potential acceleration of the deployment.
The new multiplexes are broadcast along the major motorway corridors of Paris-Lyon-Marseille. Extension to more main roads and highly populated areas is planned for the end of The CSA rollout plan, the so-called "nodes and arcs strategy" described in , which also includes continued regional and local rollouts alongside the launch of national services, was updated in Arcom says that "In total, it is expected that 17 multiplexes, extended or local, will have started broadcasting during the summer of This law passed the last stage and was made official in December , with the transposition of the EECC into French law officially published on 28 May Domestic receivers, for which the reception function of radio services broadcast is not purely incidental, and have an alphanumeric screen, must be capable of receiving digital terrestrial radio.
According to the new roadmap, calls for applications will be launched for 50 local allotments in that period of time β these primarily concerned the cities of Dijon, Lyon, Marseille, Rennes, Caen, Nancy, Paris, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Poitiers and Toulouse. In this country there are National multiplexes : 2 Regular Regional multiplexes : 37 Regular Local multiplexes : 65 Regular on air. This law passed the last stage and was made official in December , enabling the government to take a final decree which is expected by early The decree will confirm that new passenger cars in France will be required to include digital terrestrial radio from 20 December , in line with the EECC.
Additional obligations regarding consumer receivers have yet to be agreed and may also be included in that decree enacting the EECC. Arcom's annual report. Arcom's White Paper on the future of radio. The French Ministry of Culture is a partner of the Association. The first global campaign took place in January It was completed by a social media campaign and a billboard campaign in the Paris metro, outdoors in the Ile-de-France region and in Nantes, Strasbourg, Lyon and Lille.
