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BBC Radio 5 live, in reaction to the Paris Attacks, moved all planned sports coverage on Saturday to 5 live Sports Extra on Saturday. The move enabled the station to continue rolling news coverage of the incidents of Friday night in France, advising listeners to listen to ‘Sports Extra’ for regular programmes.

NXP Semiconductor N.V., global technology leader in secure connected cars and car infotainment solutions, received the “Best Partner” award from Panasonic Corporation. NXP’s multi-standard hardware platform eliminates the need for its customers to spend valuable resources to develop distinct radio architectures for DAB in Europe.

Signal Xmas, Pulse Xmas and The Wave Xmas radio stations are returning for 2015 on local DAB multiplexes.

DAB digital radio is becoming firmly established as the core future platform for radio. Retaining Band III for radio is of critical importance both to listeners and to the long term health of the radio industry. Read the press release in full.

The DAB radio stations are plentiful and have a reasonably good sound quality. The unit is small and sleek and looks good. It has two USB outputs at the back. The maximum total power supplied between them is 2.1A, which is more than any other DAB radio we know of.

Connects2 have just launched a new ground-breaking product onto the market called “SmartDAB”. The product is targeted for all vehicles and is controlled via Bluetooth to your smartphone. It has been designed so that it is ‘self-fit’ in less than 1 minute straight out of the box.

The CSA has published the report of the public consultation launched last July. There were a large number of responses and a willingness to start the rollout of further DAB+ services without delay. This would mean coverage of more than 20% of the French population.

This year’s WorldDAB Award for Outstanding Service was awarded to Anthony Sethill, CEO of Frontier Silicon and past Vice-President of WorldDAB in recognition of Anthony’s contribution to the growth and development of the DAB standards across global markets over the last 15 years.

UK Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy, Ed Vaizey, and Dorothee Bär, German Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), set out their shared vision for radio’s digital future at the WorldDAB General Assembly. Ed Vaizey said the European Commission can and should play a greater role in supporting the transition to digital radio across Europe.

Panjab Radio is expanding into Europe with the launch of a DAB service in Berlin. The slot on the Berlin/Brandenburg DAB 7B network makes Panjab the first Asian radio station to broadcast in Germany.