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National Broadcasting Council of Poland's Krystyna Kuhn: In 2013 Poland had just started its DAB journey, so joining WorldDAB allowed us to meet countries with much more experience that we could learn from, such as the UK and Norway. We hoped to find good examples of solutions to the challenges we met on these first steps.

In 2018, the Scandinavian countries will be the guests of honour of this three-day show, and its radio professionals will be in the spotlight. DENMARK, SWEDEN, FINLAND and NORWAY (which have just switched off FM permanently) will be the four guests of honour of this new edition, which will have an even greater international dimension than ever.

In that sense, the Ibiza is pretty hot on connectivity, with FR and Xcellence models featuring DAB radio and a sizeable 8in glass touchscreen to control Apple Car Play, Android Auto and Mirror Link.

The National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council of Ukraine has announced a DAB digital radio pilot project in 2018 and 2019 with the broadcasting license to be issued for seven years.

FM has reached its limits! There is no capacity for complementary services and also in terms of quality, analogue radio is severely limited. That's why Radio Top, which has been digital for some years now, is distributed via DAB+ throughout German-speaking Switzerland. In the next five years FM will further disappear.

DIGIDIA and Clearbox Systems have been selected by Broadcast Australia to provide DAB+ digital radio multiplexing, program monitoring and networking timing software, hardware and support. The systems are being deployed in Canberra, Darwin and Hobart.

Lyca Radio UK has gained a Digital sound programme service (DSPS) licence to broadcast on the Sound Digital DAB multiplex. It means the brand, which operates in London on Medium Wave as Lyca Dilse 1035 and Lyca Radio 1458, will provide a new service...

DAB is almost exactly the same as AM and FM - it’s broadcast radio, received on a little box with an antenna. You don’t need a mobile phone, a data plan, or a SIM card. It’s just broadcast radio - radio as you know it. So losing the 1485 AM transmitter for BBC Radio Humberside is not, quite, the seismic shift that the doom-mongers would want you to get all concerned about. The station is still available on a number of other platforms.

The system has been installed in the existing datacenter and contains both multiplexers and encoders. The system will be used for the Bauer Media expansion of DAB in Denmark, and in particular for its regional broadcasting. Capacity in the multiplexers will be offered also for local radio stations.

From December 2016 to December 2017, the "traditional" channels have fallen in daily listening from 60.2 to 42.1%, while NRK, P4 and Bauer Media niche channels have increased daily listening share from 26.4 to 36%. The difference has never been smaller between the two groups of radio stations.