{"id":1885,"date":"2007-03-29T17:43:17","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T17:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2007\/03\/d2_bids_are_in\/"},"modified":"2007-03-29T17:43:17","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T17:43:17","slug":"d2_bids_are_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/d2_bids_are_in\/","title":{"rendered":"D2 Bids Are In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bids went in yesterday for the second national commercial multiplex.<br \/>\nThere are two bidders &#8211; Channel 4 and National Grid Wireless. Channel 4 we know about &#8211; James has all the <a href=\"http:\/\/james.cridland.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/28\/channel-4-and-dab-digital-radio\/\">details<\/a>. National Grid Wireless (NGW) are one of the two radio transmission comapnies in the UK (the other is Arqiva), and the big story has been about their inclusion of Channel 4 services in their application without getting permission from C4.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all got a bit tetchy with Channel 4 a little miffed about being included on someone else&#8217;s bid. In fact, it doesn&#8217;t matter who the service provider ends up being &#8211; you can rope anyone in &#8211; but they do have to adhere to promised formats.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a great round-up of the situation over on the Media Guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/organgrinder\/2007\/03\/national_grid_wireless_clever.html\">Organ Grinder blog<\/a>. And read the comments. Could emma2001&#8217;s be common than we care to think?<br \/>\nStill some interesting new services promised, although I&#8217;m amazed that NGW have retained their competition station, &#8220;Radio Play,&#8221; after all the recent hoo-ha. I suppose the problem is that it&#8217;s a speech service using very little bandwidth, and finding another service at short notice would have been tricky. Still&#8230;<br \/>\nDisclaimer: I&#8217;m writing here in a personal capacity, since my employer does have a vested interest in the Channel 4 bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bids went in yesterday for the second national commercial multiplex. There are two bidders &#8211; Channel 4 and National Grid Wireless. Channel 4 we know about &#8211; James has all the details. National Grid Wireless (NGW) are one of the two radio transmission comapnies in the UK (the other is Arqiva), and the big story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}