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This month, French regulator CSA will launch a public consultation into the deployment of DAB+ in the metropolitan areas of France. Areas under consideration are Nantes, Lyon, Strasbourg, Lille, Bethune-Douai-Lens, Valenciennes, Mulhouse, Metz, Nancy, Bayonne, Le Havre, Brest, Grenoble, Bordeaux, Toulouse Rennes, Clermont-Ferrand, Montpellier and Toulon Rouen.

In a digital radio survey by TNS Gallup, it was found that although the majority of radio listeners surveyed had better access to analogue radios, it is digital listening that prevails.

The Free Sender Kombinat (FSK) and the Hamburg Local Radio (HLR) stations will go digital from 17 June 2015.

Paneda will shortly introduce a number of new DAB related products on the international market, including a complete new and unique DAB head-end system with its related peripheral components.

To improve it's national digital radio coverage, Deutshland Radio has increased its national multiplex transmission capacity from 288 to 396 units and the error protection to 3/8 instead of 1/2.

Commercial Radio Australia, digital broadcasting's industry group, has mounted an intense ad campaign leading up to Sunday, May 10, plugging Sony's offer of a free pair of noise-cancelling headphones with a particular digital radio model. Given that ...

From 5th May, Deutschland Radio has increased its transmission capacity in the national multiplex. This marks the beginning of future actions to improve the digital radio coverage in Germany.

The latest findings for this year's first quarter show that FM listening is at it's lowest level ever with 57% of radio listeners using at least one digital platform, which translates to about 1.67 million daily radio listeners.

Polish Radio started digital broadcasting in Bydgoszcz and Torun on 30 April and coverage of DAB+ now reaches 31% of the territory and 53.8% of the population.

Mari Hagerup, Head of Communications for DigitalRadio Norge talks to La W on the planned shutdown of FM in Norway.