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Around 250 working students from French-speaking Switzerland have taken part in a competition to build a digital radio.

15 new DAB+ stations now available in the Swiss French-speaking area of Switzerland.

Roger Löhrer is head of mobility counseling at TCS - with 1.6 million members, the largest mobility organization in Switzerland. For the Blick.ch he clarifies questions about driving.

In Switzerland, the rise of DAB+ is steady. In 2013 just under 365,000 DAB+ receivers were sold, bringing the total to 1.52 million DAB+ radios in circulation.

Navigation manufacturer Garmin sends its Live Traffic service free of charge via DAB+ .

The European Broadcasting Union says its Smart Radio Initiative is gaining momentum as German broadcaster Klassik Radio AG has backed the campaign to integrate analog and digital broadcast chips in all mobile devices.

We still don't know exactly when analogue signals will be switched off. One thing is for sure: it's definitely going to happen, and suddenly, the vast majority of cars will have completely redundant radios. You're going to need a DAB receiver if you want to carry on listening to Chris Evans on the morning commute.

Participants in the 6th Poznan Media Expo had no doubts as to the necessity and inevitability of completing the digitalization process of European broadcasting media.

DAB+ in the UK becomes more likely as Ofcom consults over Code changes. Ofcom is consulting over a revised Digital Radio Technical Code, which could pave the way for DAB+ to be implemented in the UK. The proposed new Digital 2 multiplex could contain a mix of original DAB and DAB+ services.

Following the news last week that new vehicle sales in March were the highest for a decade, new figures have been released from CAP and the SMMT which show that in Q1 2014, 45.2% of new cars came with DAB digital radio as standard, up from 42.8% in Q4 2013.