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Some time a year back or so in Brigade in one corner shop they had put up a huge bill board saying
World’s biggest music store. People flocked into the shop with all the curiosity to find there are no CD/DVDs or cassettes
There were four towers with headsets hanging down.
It was a well made spoof….

World space is actually the world’s biggest music store it’s also world’s biggest news beaming house

When you buy worldspace radio,
You get a worldspace digital receiver, a long cable and a mini antenna along with the installation kit.

Installation is a very simple procedure.

If you just purchase radio set you can’t play the it. When you purchase radio you also have to purchase the subscription just like you pay for your cable tv.
To activate this subscription you are given 32 character password which you need to key in the radio.
Once it is activated you are ready to listen.

How different this radio is from conventional radio ?!

There’s a fundamental difference between your conventional radio and world space radio in the way the signals are broadcasted.

There are two kinds of terrestrial radio. One is your AM radio and other FM radio.
AM radio is mostly regional channels but you do get channels across the seas the there’s lot of fading and noise and reception quality isn’t great.
In FM radio you have the limitation of the distance. It’s broadcasting zone does go beyond 3-0-40 kms.

In your regular radios the station is here and the signals just graze the surface of the earth before reaching the set.
It uses the atmospheric layers to reflect the broadcasted signals.
Since your atmosphere is volatile and because of this there’s lot of noise in the reception.

Whereas in the case of worldspace signals from the broadcasting go directly and hit the satellites. And reflect back to the earth.
There are two satellites afristar and asia start. Two geostationary satellites hovering at 36000 kms away from the earth.

This is about the transmission part.

So what does the worldspace radio offer ?!
On a rough approximation you can say worldspace radio is your cable TV minus the picture.

It offers the clarity, the choice and the coverage.
Clarity is 100 % crystal clear !! CD quality without any fading, noise or interference.

On the choice front you
You get nearly 35 channels of Music and News
For news listeners you get CNN BBC NDTV
Those who like to learn French they can listen to RFI
For people who like instrumental music you have Sahara
For people interested in western classical there’s maestro and the list goes on and on.
You can listen to various genres of music ranging from pop, rock, jazz to westen classic.

It’s commercial free and there’s no RJ crap and traffic updates.

Why you buy a worldspace radio and that too it’s so expensive ?!

You buy world space for the pure pleasure of audio.
Yes it costs 5000 per set and the subscription charges for listening to the radio.


On the flip side of worldspace radio ?!
It’s the mobility.
You cant fit the radio inside your car because antenna should always be pointing to the sky.
Receiver itself is expensive and you have to renew your subscription every year.

Despite the rapid proliferation of cable TV and other convergent products redefining the home entertainment
Marconi’s discovery 100 years back simply refuses to go out of fashion.