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Guardian and Observer report losses of £44.2m last year‎
19.07.2012 - United Kingdom United Kingdom
The owner of The Guardian slumped to a pre-tax loss of £75.6m in the year to March as it ran up big costs on investing in new digital offerings and it took a big writedown on its radio business.

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Pure launches Contour 200i Air, a digital radio dock for any iOS device
19.07.2012 - United Kingdom United Kingdom
Pure launches Contour 200i Air, a digital radio dock for any iOS device » Tech Trader - Digital Lifestyle, Consumer Electronics and IT Retailers | Tech Trader – Consumer Electronics and IT Retailers.

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Grupo Radio Centro Reports Second Quarter and First Half 2012 Results
19.07.2012 - Mexico Mexico
one of Mexico's leading radio broadcasting companies, announced today its results of operations for the second quarter and first half ended June 30, 2012. All figures were prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

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BBC not yet ready to abandon analogue radio
19.07.2012 - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) WorldDAB Member - United Kingdom United Kingdom
Tim Davie, BBC director of audio and music said: "We should be selling radios with DAB and FM [reception] so that they are future-proof", speaking at a digital radio conference in London.

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Pure Stream shuns wires, lets you stream tunes to your radio from your phone
19.07.2012 - Pure - United Kingdom United Kingdom
Pure 39's latest DAB radio comes with a little something extra: Pure Stream, so you can wirelessly play music from your smartphone. Launching alongside Pure Stream is the Pure Sensia 200D Connect, a touchscreen DAB radio with wireless pretensions.

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STMicroelectronics Leads the Move to Next-Generation Car Infotainment Systems
18.07.2012 - STMicroelectronics WorldDAB Member - Switzerland Switzerland
The chipset can receive and decode up to four channels in parallel, two for FM phase diversity and two for terrestrial digital broadcasting (e.g. DAB). With this feature, the car radio can receive audio content from one channel, while pulling real-time traffic and ...

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BBC defends Olympics staff numbers for London 2012
18.07.2012 - United Kingdom United Kingdom
Dave Gordon, BBC Sport's head of major events, told the Radio Times: "Don't forget, NBC is flying 2700 over from the USA. So we're pretty lean and mean. "I look on it .... 'Dark Knight Rises':

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Analysis of digital radio in Bavaria
18.07.2012 - Bayern Digital Radio GmbH - Germany Germany
The Bavarian Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting (BLM) has conducted in cooperation with Bavarian and national DAB radio operators in the analysis of Bavaria in 2012, a detailed study on the use of digital radio programs in Bavaria.

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IFA 2012 Preview
18.07.2012 - Germany Germany
Just six weeks before the start of the International Radio Exhibition the public interest in digital radio continues to grow. Nearly 500 journalists have obtained information on press events in Hamburg, Munich and Berlin about the main topics of the upcoming IFA. The latest devices are now shown at the IFA itself to a wide audience.

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EBU collaborates on successful DAB SFN master's thesis
17.07.2012 - European Broadcasting Union (EBU) WorldDAB Member - Switzerland Switzerland
An MSc student at EPFL Lausanne has developed a method of enabling Single Frequency Network (SFN) transmission using the free/open mmbTools DAB+ software-defined radio transmission set from the Communications Research Center Canada (CRC).

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