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According to Schweiz am Sonntag (“Switzerland on Sunday), Radio Energy CEO Dani Büchi said that the media company plans to discontinue its FM transmissions in 2019, switching to all digital broadcasts.

Telecompaper reports that Emitel will transmit digital terrestrial signals for Polish Radio in Warsaw, Katowice and Silesian, beginning in 2014. This agreement would bring DAB+ coverage to 7 million Polish residents, and Polish Radio hopes to increase its coverage to 30 percent of the country’s territory, reaching about 56 percent of the population, by the end of next year.

Consumers are making their own choices and there is a clear upwards trend in acceptance of digital radio, with well over half the population already using it.

It's surprisingly difficult to come by audio equipment that looks as sharp as it sounds, but Ruark have nailed it with retro-futuristic styling in sleek finishes of walnut and glossy pastel veneers.

Nearly 800,000 listeners in Surrey can tune in to four local stations on DAB digital radio for the first time.

Radio World and Radio.NL report that the government of the Netherlands is considering sunsetting that country’s FM band and transitioning to digital radio broadcasting. This would mean DAB+.

Three new digital radio transmitters have been switched on in Surrey, giving local coverage to almost 800,000 people.

The Superior Council of Audiovisual set at Friday, June 20, 2014 the start date of the emissions authorized publishers in digital terrestrial radio in areas of Marseille, Nice and Paris.

Eric Adelbrecht, Director of RTL Radio, Belgium speaks about how DAB+ is the future of radio in Belgium and discusses the technologies benefits.

With the announcement of a second national commercial radio DAB multiplex expected on Monday, we caught up with Arqiva, the owner of the first and only MUX, to gauge their interest.