James May to speak at digital radio event

05/10/2012 - 10:30 | 1 Reply More

Broadcaster and Top Gear presenter James May is joining the line-up at the Drive to Digital Conference in London on November 5th.

He’ll be joined on stage by Absolute Radio’s Christian O’Connell, along with other guest speakers including BBC Radio 2 presenter Jo Whiley.

The agenda features a “Digital Question Time” video interview between Broadcast Minister Ed Vaizey and BBC reporter and conference chair Nick Higham. Over 300 delegates from across the automotive and broadcast industries attend the conference at BBC Broadcasting House.

The speakers will be focusing on how to accelerate growth and adoption of digital radios in cars. The Keynote speakers, following the interview with the Minister, are Tim Davie, Director of Audio & Music at the BBC and Anthony Ireson, marketing Director at Ford of Britain.

More cars are coming with DAB already installed – and just this week VW has confirmed new Golfs will come with a DAB radio set as standard – including the entry-level version Mk7 for 2013.

RadioToday.co.uk will be tweeting live from the event and will have video from the event available shortly afterwards.


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  • http://www.jonathanmarks.com Jonathan Marks

    Clever way of getting the conversation going about the lack of DAB in cars. Discrete car radios are a thing of the past, so unless it’s in the car in the showroom, it will never be fitted. But digital radio also needs to improve the car radio interface so great content is easier to find on the road. MyFordTouch recognizes voice commands for frequencies. But it needs to be able to respond to commands like the station name. Or people will simply say spotify…

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