United Kingdom - Coverage - History
17.10.2012
The UK radio industry is taking action to improve coverage and is investing in new infrastructure. New transmitters are being built all the time and further expansion in coverage is being planned.
Today, digital radio already has wide coverage: 93% of the population is predicted to receive BBC national stations on digital, 85% can receive commercial national stations and around 66% of the population is predicted to receive local and regional stations on digital.
15.10.2012
The UK radio industry is taking action to improve coverage and is investing in new infrastructure . New transmitters are being built all the time and further expansion in coverage is being planned .
Today, digital radio already has wide coverage: 93% of the population is predicted to receive BBC national stations on digital, 85% can receive commercial national stations and around 66% of the population is predicted to receive local and regional stations on digital
30.01.2012
Please see here for an interactive map of UK DAB coverage - http://maps.ofcom.org.uk/dab/index.html
Local DAB multiplexes are estimated to cover 66.2% of households.
The BBC have built over 80 new DAB transmitters taking national coverage to 93% of the UK population. The BBC’s Tim Davie has confirmed the BBC will build out to 97% coverage of its national services by a target date of 2015. The third new major transmitter around London, Epping Green, will shortly launch. Together the three improve coverage for over 9 million people and add around a quarter of a million new households into coverage for the first time.
An agreement on funding for local DAB coverage is expected to be reached this quarter.
Northern Ireland - please see here for an up to date summary of coverage in N.I. - http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/cmr/cmr11/NI_Doc_Section_3.pdf