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Update UK
14.04.2008 - United Kingdom United Kingdom
The latest audience results confirm DAB as by far the most popular digital radio platform in the UK.  On a like-for-like comparison, DAB achieved 12 times more radio listening than either Internet Radio or radio over Digital television.  During December consumers bought 25,000 DAB digital radios a day, and a major London department store sold more DAB radios per minute than iPods.   Ofcom, the government regulator, has also recently announced the award of the second DAB national radio multiplex to the 4 Digital Group Limited.  This multiplex license will allow the 4 Digital Group to broadcast radio and multimedia services. There are also plans to provide a selection of pod casts using DAB+.  Slideshow trials are currently on going in the London area. 

Summer of Sport Promotion for Highway - The Radio Driving In-Car Dab Market
14.04.2008 - Imagination Technologies - United Kingdom United Kingdom
The world’s first plug and play in-car DAB radio, the PURE Highway, is to benefit from on-air promotion worth £250,000 in the months leading up to 2008’s summer of sport as part of a co-marketing campaign with a...

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NeoMagic(R) Announces Production Release of MiMagic 8 Application Processor for Mobile TV Enabled Smart Phones and Other Handheld Products
14.04.2008 - United States United States
... making it very easy to support all the major mobile TV standards around the world including ISDB-T, T-DMB, DVB-H, etc.," said Douglas R. Young, ...

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SH-Mobile3A
12.04.2008 - Japan Japan
SH-Mobile3A is an application processor designed for use in high-end models of mobile phone, which incorporates the latest multimedia processing functions, including...

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Huashu Media Taps RadioScape for DAB/DAB+/T-DMB Services
11.04.2008 - Radioscape - United Kingdom United Kingdom
RadioScape CEO John Hall added: “2008 is proving to be a year of increasing activity in the international radio market as more countries roll-out DAB and ...

(Radio World, VA) Read more


China Pushes DAB, T-DMB Ahead of Olympics
11.04.2008 - China China
WorldDMB lent its support to a publicity effort from Beijing Radio Corp. to kick-start the promotion of DAB technologies in China ahead of the 2008 Summer ...

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Planet Rock bounces back with Sony nods
11.04.2008 - United Kingdom United Kingdom
... in February as part of parent company GCap Media's withdrawal from digital audio broadcasting, or DAB radio, which it said was economically unviable. ...

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Green Tide Flows into UK Radio
10.04.2008 - Ireland Ireland
The anticipated sea change, however, failed to materialise, with various other executives voicing their support for DAB, and Hazlitt's plans weren't enough ...

(Irish Independent, Ireland) Read more


T-Systems shortlisted for operation of German digital radio ...
09.04.2008 - Media Broadcast GmbH WorldDAB Member - Germany Germany
s (NYSE:DT) customer clients unit T-Systems is one of three bidders shortlisted for the operation of a new digital radio network in Germany, ...

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Czech Republic starts DAB/DAB+ trials
09.04.2008 - TELEKO digital, a.s. - Czechia Czechia
The TELEKO Company started it's DAB/DAB+ trial on 1 April 2008 in the Plezen region with an increased transmitter power of 1 kW EPR. A coverage map for this trial can be seen on the website www.t-dab.cz