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• EBU’s new head of radio to prioritise DAB+ growth

  15 avril
  The continuing progress of digital radio, specifically DAB+, and the deployment of hybrid radio within cars/trucks to retain radio’s share of the vital mobile market are priorities for Edita Kudláčová.
  

• Bulgarian radio station launches on DAB+ in the Netherlands

  14 avril
  BG Radio, a Bulgarian radio station playing Bulgarian pop music, is now available to listeners on DAB+ in a large part of the Netherlands.
  

• Planning DAB+ radio with hybrid capability is the way forward

  14 avril
  ABU DBS 2021 featured a session on Technologies and Strategies for Successful Digital Radio Rollout. Dr Les Sabel, Chair, WorldDAB Asia Pacific Technical Group, highlighted the need to have DAB+ as the heart of hybrid radio, which can help extract metadata and deliver it to the receiver at a (...)
  

• DAB+ growth accelerates in France

  13 avril
  The growth of DAB+ in France continues to accelerate, and 75% of the greater Paris region is now covered with DAB+ reception. Starting from 31 May, a series of activities across the country will celebrate radio and DAB+ as part of the "Fête de la radio" (...)
  

• Automotive audio workshops organised by RadioDNS and WorldDAB

  13 avril
  WorldDAB and RadioDNS jointly organise automotive workshops three times a year. These roundtable meetings discuss a mixture of current implementation issues, and identify gaps in functionality that could be easily closed.
  

• Germany - new stations launch on second national mux

  13 avril
  The nationwide DAB+ offering in Germany continues to grow with the launch of three stations - herFunk/Radio Eva and Sportradio Deutschland will launch on 1 May, while dpd Driver's Radio will also launch in the near future.
  

• New DAB+ stations launch in Paris

  12 avril
  Jazz Radio, Melody, Oüi FM, Radio FG, Radio Notre Dame, Radio Nova, Sud Radio et TSF Jazz are now available to listeners on DAB+ digital radio in the greater Paris region.
  

• DAB+ spring countdown - consumer competition

  7 avril
  Digitalradio Deutschland has launched an exciting spring DAB+ receiver promotion campaign. Every day between 6 - 17 April participants have the chance to win one of the latest DAB+ radios available in the shops.
  

• Building radio audiences with DAB+

  7 avril
  WorldDAB was the major sponsor of this year's ABU DBS and hosted a DAB+ workshop on Tuesday 6 April. Topics covered: DAB+ in the APAC region (Joan Warner, CRA); global update and why broadcasters are rolling out DAB+ (Patrick Hannon, President WorldDAB); DAB+ standards update (Lindsay Cornell, (...)
  

• DAB+ headend systems - the future is cloud based

  7 avril
  In the last couple of years, DAB head-end systems have undergone many improvements. Today, most systems are connected to the internet, so security is in focus. Systems are also more user-friendly with a focus on redundancy and simplification, says Paneda's Lars-Peder (...)
  

• 95% of Australians listen to radio each week

  5 avril
  Radio’s move to becoming a truly multiplatform business has been key to not only retaining but growing our audiences,” said Joan Warner at #DBS2021, with audiences now able to access radio anywhere, any time on any device. In the last quarter 2020 there was a 15% rise in listeners to DAB+ only (...)
  

• Digital radio standards explained at #DBS2021

  5 avril
  The ETSI TS 103 461 standard for digital radio receivers and has been updated to include new standards for car radio digital radio receivers. The latest standard was published in October 2020, it guarantees that all DAB receivers can handle all the requirements, including scripts for all world (...)
  

• DAB+ offering grows in Vienna

  31 mars
  Vienna's CityMUX Wien II multiplex currently has 13 stations on air, with three additional stations scheduled to launch in the near future.
  

• DAB+ offering grows in Liguria

  31 mars
  Seven additional DAB+ stations are now available to listeners in the region, bringing the total number of DAB+ stations in Liguria to 58.
  

• Netherlands - almost 20% of in-car listening on DAB+

  31 mars
  19% of all in-car radio listening in the Netherlands currently takes place via DAB+, a daily equivalent of over 600,000 listeners. This number is expected to grow in the near future, as the EECC requires new passenger cars across Europe to include digital terrestrial radio (...)
  

• First Fête de la radio event to take place in France

  31 mars
  Invited by the French regulator CSA, French radio stakeholders have launched the first Fête de la Radio - a week-long event starting on May 31 aimed at celebrating radio and informing industry professionals and the wider public on the benefits of DAB+ digital (...)
  

• 2021 - a pivotal year for DAB+ in France

  31 mars
  France, which celebrates 100 years since the first radio broadcasts from the Eiffel tower, is set to launch national DAB+ services in the summer. According to the CSA’s new head of the radio and audio working group Hervé Godechot, DAB+ is “radio’s passport to the 21st (...)
  

• WorldDAB to hold DAB+ workshop at ABU DBS 2021

  29 mars
  Organised by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, the ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium 2021 will take place from April 5 to 8 and for the first time, the entire event will be held online in light of the ongoing global pandemic.
  

• Podcast Radio added to Birmingham small-scale DAB

  29 mars
  Podcast Radio has been added to DAB in Birmingham, in addition to being on-air in London, Surrey, Manchester and Glasgow. Podcast Radio CEO Gerry Edwards says: “We’ve wanted to expand to Birmingham for some time now. We’ve been waiting for space on the digital transmitter multiplex there and as (...)
  

• DRUK launches new digital radio campaign

  29 mars
  Digital Radio UK has launched a new on air campaign communicating how listeners can enjoy their favourite stations with digital radio at home, on the go and in their car as the easing of restrictions sees a welcome return to more activities. The new 30 second spots will run across national and (...)
  

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