Listen to Doris's entire unedited interview with Fred Benedikt. Instead of interference, static or background noise, listeners can expect crystal-clear sound whether they're in a tunnel or going over a bridge. A consortium of public and private broadcasters, Digital Radio Rollout Inc., has been set up to lead the digital wave. Fred Benedikt, a senior systems engineer with the CBC , is a member of the in-house digital radio team. Benedikt explains the need to convert to digital.
Consumers expect, in the future, CD-quality sound that digital radio delivers.
Currently, AM and FM radio can't compete against CDs, MP3s. People are expecting higher quality, so we had to move to another platform, which is digital radio. Four cities, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and Windsor have gone digital already. Not only will radio sound different, it'll look different as well, says Benedikt. But Benedikt says these new radios don't come cheap.