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Introduction

Question 44/10 relates to the possibility of standardizing one or more sound broadcasting systems on a world wide basis. It is clear that the study of this complex question is not sufficiently advanced to achieve this aim. The present Report, therefore, is only a summary of the information available, intended to encourage administrations, broadcasting organizations and industry, to take an interest in these questions and to undertake the studies necessary to solve them.

At present, broadcasts in bands 5, 6 and 7, unlike sound and television broadcasting in band 8 (VHF), are operated throughout the world with an almost complete absence of internationally standardized transmission characteristics; with the exception of channel spacings and carrier frequencies for bands 5 and 6, but even these differ from Region to Region. The other transmission characteristics vary from country to country and in many cases even from transmitter to transmitter [EBU, 1971].