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The programme of work, which was delivered by communications infrastructure company Arqiva, has doubled the local DAB network, with new transmitters or modifications to 221 local DAB sites, boosting local DAB coverage from 72% to more than 90% of UK households.

The launch of the two new transmitters completes the initiative to expand the UK’s local DAB transmission network towards FM equivalence, which was announced by the DCMS (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) in 2015 and jointly funded by the DCMS, BBC and local DAB multiplex operators. This has doubled the local DAB network, with new transmitters or modifications to 221 local DAB sites, boosting local DAB coverage from 72% to more than 90% of UK households.

After exactly 18 months on DAB+, lulu.fm is further expanding its broadcasting area. From Wednesday April 4, the gay and lesbian metropolitan radio can also be received in the Rhine-Neckar region via DAB+.

Radio Caroline has been available in London since this Easter weekend via DAB+. The station already broadcasts in England with a temporary DAB+ license until June 2018 in six other places.

10 radio stations in Kyiv are to broadcast in DAB, with three of those being dedicated to public broadcasting. Eight companies were granted the right to broadcast in digital, with licences awarded for seven years.

The Dutch court upheld the accuracy of the information campaign in the Netherlands, which identifies DAB+ digital radio as a successor to FM. The Dutch court has now made a clear statement: "Advertising is not misleading because the digitisation of radio air is taking place all over the world. DAB+ is practically the only successor to FM broadcasting.

The Dutch Advertising Regulatory Committee (RCC) has concluded that a promotion for DAB+ by Digital Radio NL in the Netherlands is not "fake advertising", retracting its previous decision to find the campaign misleading to consumers. "The digitization of airborne transmissions takes place all over the world. DAB + is the only practical successor of FM," the committee concluded.

The Teufel 3sixty is a modern radio that can do much more than a normal radio. On board are things like DAB+, FM, DLNA, Bluetooth and Spotify Connect. In addition, you can also connect a device such as the Amazon Echo Dot on the jack to the radio on request.

The BBC could be approached by the Isle of Man government to help radio stations in the island broadcast digital content via local DAB transmitters. Chief minister Howard Quayle said he could raise the issue of allowing other stations to use the DAB transmitter as part of wider negotiations over the TV licence fee and the corporation’s Isle of Man coverage.

The advertising campaign in which DAB + is the digital successor to FM is not misleading. This was the opinion of the Board of Appeal of the Advertising Code Committee (RCC).