# Radio History

**URL:** <https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236>\
**Category:** General Radio and Digital\
**Created:** [December 28, 2015, 7:42am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236 "2015-12-28T07:42:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/user_avatar/forums.mediaspy.org/sydneycitytv/32/66248_2.png) [@SydneyCityTV](https://forums.mediaspy.org/u/SydneyCityTV)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/radio-history/236/1822 "2020-01-21T11:58:52Z")

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> [@Nine Radio (Music)](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/nine-radio-music/116/2423):
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> > [@Nine Radio (Music)](https://forums.mediaspy.org/t/nine-radio-music/116/2420):
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> > DAB is also the great leveller. Remember when 4BH was at its peak in about 2007 there was barely any DAB uptake.
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> That’s because DAB+ didn’t start until 2009. 🙂

I don’t know if there were any DAB trials on in Brisbane back in 2007, but it’s to my understanding that DAB (as opposed to DAB+) was trialled in Sydney for quite a long time:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fsgu1uvG7K4/hqdefault.jpg "Digital Radio Trial in Sydney DAB Eureka 147 - June 2008") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgu1uvG7K4)

Upload credit - “MediaWatcherOz”

This YouTube upload is from June 2008 (so probably towards the end, before the DAB+ services we’re all too familiar with now started in August 2009), but the video description suggests that they were running as early as December 2003!

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