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WorldDAB has announced the line-up for its popular DAB+ Digital Radio Workshop, taking place in Kuala Lumpur on Monday 5 March at ABU's 2018 Digital Broadcasting Symposium. With more and more broadcasters implementing DAB+ in Asia Pacific, the workshop, titled "DAB+ in a multiplatform world," will discuss how DAB+ can secure a strong future for radio. Speakers in this year's line-up include Dave Cameron, General Manager at Southern Cross Austereo in Melbourne, Asia Pacific Chair of WorldDAB Joan Warner, WorldDAB Technical Committee Chair Lindsay Cornell, Commercial Radio Australia's Les Sabel, and senior advisor from Norwegian broadcaster NRK Jørn Jensen.

The number of new cars that Germany will be delivered with a DAB+ radio has almost doubled in a year. In 2017, 39.1% of the new cars left the factory with a working DAB+ radio on board. In 2016 this was 21% and in 2015 only 13%. This is shown by data from the Deutsche Automobil Treuhand (DAT), which records the data for all vehicles in Germany.

WorldDAB has announced the line-up of speakers and sessions for its popular Digital Radio Workshop, taking place in Kuala Lumpur on Monday 5 March at ABU’s 2018 Digital Broadcasting Symposium. With more and more broadcasters implementing DAB+ in Asia Pacific, the workshop, titled “DAB+ in a multiplatform world,” will discuss how DAB+ can secure a strong future for radio.

Greece entered the digital radio age on 5 January with the country’s first-ever DAB+ radio transmissions. According to the Greek language news site radiotvlink.gr, seven DAB+ channels are being broadcast by ERT on VHF Channel 12C (227.36 MHz), using a single DAB+ multiplex and a transmission power of 300 watts.

French radio station Crooner FM have expressed delight at the CSA's news to accelerate deployment of DAB+ services in the country, helping them to enable transmission in Lille from May 2018, and Strasbourg at a to-be-confirmed date.

WorldDAB made a call to European Union policy makers on the European market on Monday to ensure new radio equipment always has access to both analogue and digital radio frequencies. The campaign was in tandem with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the European Digital Radio Alliance (EDRA).

The new station will launch at 12am (AEST) on Thursday February 1, and will be available on DAB+ in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

As from January 31, 2018, Germany-wide online radio detector.fm began broadcasting on DAB+ for the first time. The station participates in a pilot project for the supply of digital programmes via DAB+ in Leipzig and Freiberg.

Starting 31 January, the young digital station Absolut HOT began broadcasting on DAB+ in the Greater Leipzig and Freiberg regions. This follows the allocation of temporary DAB+ multiplexes made by the Saxon State Media Authority last May.

The German cities of Leipzig and Freiberg have each begun 12 new DAB+ broadcasts in the city starting on 31 January, enabled by the local DAB+ multiplexes supported by the Saxon State Media Authority.