Just met Dr Esmail Hozour again after many years. He used to run Grundig North America. He is now CEO of Eton Corporation (Eton is Greek for solid) and bringing out a whole series of new radios, many made in Bangalore, India. It is the first time I have seen this type of quality out of India. Eton believe in DAB as well as XM and Sirius, but are taking a wait and see approach to DRM technology. Blaupunkt was also showing a DRM car radio in the Physics-Research section of IFA, but says it has no plans to make a model next year.
Also, great to see Wolf Harranth, who has been working hard to set up a proper radio and TV archive in Vienna - and now has catalogued 4 million items of broadcasting history, probably the most comprehensive of its kind in the world. Wolf and I used to work together in the media business, he for ORF Auslandsdienst in German, whereas my show was Media Network on Radio Netherlands.
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