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Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) has launched a new marketing campaign for DAB+ digital radio featuring Australian beatboxer Tom Thum, creatively illustrating the many different genres and stations available on DAB+ digital radio in Australia, through the use of his incredible vocal techniques.

14% of the total number of cars sold in the first half of 2015 were fitted with DAB+, that's double compared to the same period last year.

The New SUNSET Radio, playing soul, jazz and smooth grooves, will broadcast on DAB radio from 7am. Station manager Mike Shaft said, “It’s been a long time coming but Manchester will once again have a Black and Minority Ethnic music station that we can all be proud of.”

Manchester based Gaydio is to give away a £10,000 advertising campaign to celebrate its extension on DAB. Ian Wallace, Business Director of Gaydio says: “Our listeners are an advertisers dream; fiercely loyal and with high levels of disposable income... "

Have you turned on DAB radio without getting the reception you need? In places where radio signals have changed, or in areas with limited signal strength, it may be necessary to set up an outdoor antenna for better reception. Not everyone knows that opportunity and that is why we created an animation showing how outdoor antenna installed, says Jarle Ruud.

Radio digitised, but it does not mean the end of your old radio. Learn how you can upgrade your radio or ensure that it is recycled with this new animation.

At the ITS World Congress in Bordeaux, Garmin was demonstrating an updated version of its real-time traffic service. The new service - to be available to their DAB (Digital Radio) connected PNDs - is coming via a new map release distributed this month.

As the French regulator (CSA) prepares to launch DAB+ in 20 cities, founder of Crooner Radio, Jean-Baptiste Tuzet, offers Minister for Culture, Fleur Pellerin, a DAB+ radio receiver by manufacturer VQ, and asks her to "look after radio", adding that "DAB+ guarantees free to air and diverse musical content".

Contrary to many dire predictions, radio continues to be a key medium for the dissemination of information, and can also be a key communications platform in times of emergencies. And with digital radio becoming more and more ubiquitous, the role radio continues to play is unlikely to be diminished, as The Sound Report finds out.

Just over a year ago a new radio station began broadcasting from rooms at Haxby Memorial Hall. And in double quick time Vale Radio has gone digital – with the grant of a DAB digital radio licence. Already 400k people listen to DAB in North Yorkshire.