My new public appointment concerning digital radio
The Minister for Culture, Communications & Creative Industries Ed Vaizey has invited me to take over as the Chair of the Digital Consumer Electronic Group which has previously been ably chaired by Leen Petre of the RNIB.
For most of its life, this Group – which advises the Government on the consumer view regarding digital switchover – has been been all about television, but digital switchover of TV has gone much more smoothly than many feared and will be over in the course of 2012.
So now most of the focus of the CEG is on the possibility of digital switchover of radio on which the Government has an Action Plan. The CEG does not have a web site – or even a section on the DCMS web site – so I’ll use the ‘Radio’ category of my CommsWatch blog to report on our work and related developments.