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The only country that’s set a hard date for radio platform switch-over from FM to DAB is Norway. When first announced by the Culture Ministry in February 2011 the plan was for all national radio channels to vacate the FM band in 2017.

Ashley Tabor, founder and executive president of Global said: “This is an important development for this company and for the future of local digital radio. It is critical,” he added, “that as DAB grows, the investment in the local layer of DAB infrastructure matches the investment being made to the national layer.”

ANTENNA BAVARIA is the most successful commercial radio program in Germany and on DAB +. The program will be broadcast on the national DAB multiplex 12D in Bavaria. After ROCK ANTENNA, ANTENNA BAVARIA Top 40 and BAVARIA BAVARIA info is the fourth program of the group, which will be broadcast on DAB +.

Global Radio say their investment in the DAB platform continues with local and national services. They have just invested a total of £15m committing to providing their stations on more localised multiplexes owned by Bauer Media, for the next 12 years.

Four potential buyers have shown an interest, according to the report, in which Malcolm said: “Digital radio has come of age and Planet Rock is at the forefront of that. “I have put four and a half years of my life into this and £3m of my own money.

He further added, “This MobileTV-CNBC Africa partnership is one of a sign of great things to follow, once we complete our technical trials on the DMB/DAB, DAB+ platform, conducted successfully for the past 18 months. With CNBC Africa coming aboard the MobileTV Love Train, we can only say - watch this space as we break news at short intervals.”

Yesterday saw the start of a four day DAB+ Technology Workshop and Transmission Demonstration, in Jakarta, Indonesia. The event is jointly organised by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), Ministry for Communications and Technology, Radio Republic Indonesia (RRI), Commercial Radio Australia and WorldDMB.

Harris recently rolled out new transmitters, an electronic data interchange (EDI) module and the Intraplex IP Link 100 codec for large analog and digital radio transmission networks. The company has unveiled new Flexiva transmitter models (50, 150, 300 and 500 W), targeting international broadcasters deploying multiple low-power FM transmitters across a region or country. The company also revealed a new EDI product for Internet protocol-based distribution of content over multipoint digital audio broadcast (DAB) transmission networks, enabling targeted content delivery across large regions.

In the context of the series 'Dialogue in Berlin: News Conferences LMS' on the 31st October, the event 'Digital Radio in Europe - A dividend on diversity of opinion and technical innovation' will take place at the French Embassy. Speakers will be the director of the Media Authority (LMS) and radio officer Dr. Gerd Bauer and Dr. Alfred Grinschgl (RTR), Will Schreiner (Digital Radio GmbH, Germany) and Nancy Wayland Bigler (OFCOM.

The new version of the Software Defined Radio (SDR) based ClearSignal supports novel services such as TPEG, DL+ and EPM, while executing across multi cores of Linux based GENIVI and Android architectures.