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Much has happened in the past days regarding DAB+. Therefore, this provides a brief overview of what was happening in the Republic..

The department store at Elkjøp Alta has every reason to smile. From January 2017 to the present, the increase in DAB+ adapters sales for cars has been 1400%, and for DAB + radios, the increase is 221%.

Since the shutdown of Bayern 10D in August, the nationwide program has only been distributed via livestream and over three online portals. With the DAB broadcast in Munich and Augsburg, the program for 14-29-year-olds will again be terrestrial in these local broadcasting areas.

Radio Continu is now available in an even larger part of the Netherlands via DAB +. Since Friday, the station also broadcasts great attention to Dutch-speaking music through digital ether radio in the provinces of North Brabant and Limburg.

The Dutch are embracing digital radio. Two million people now listen to radio via DAB+, three times as many as it was in 2015. Sales of DAB+ has increased 48 per cent year on year and 35 per cent of cars sold in the country now have DAB+ as standard.

The past year has seen strong political commitment for digitising radio, the launch of many new DAB+ services, increased national, regional and local coverage and more investment than ever in marketing digital radio to the consumer - all of which is driving DAB+ adoption across Europe and around the world. With France at an important stage of development, the WorldDAB General Assembly 2017 will take place in Paris, bringing together the digital radio industry to discuss the future of radio.

At a packed Doing the DAB event in Cardiff on Thursday night the audience heard from BBC Radio Wales, Nation Radio and Communicorp about the thriving digital radio market in South Wales.

In the new DAB + campaign, it's no longer a matter of name recognition, but about the benefits of the new technology. According to Digital Radio Netherlands, digital radio is getting better and it is therefore time for the next phase of the campaign.

During digital radio week it was announced that thirteen percent of Dutch radio listening is over DAB+, which corresponds to about two million listeners.

The days of BMWs with no standard equipment, everything on the options list are long gone – even choosing the ‘base’ SE one will get satellite navigation, DAB radio, parking sensors front and back, heated leather seats and dual-zone climate control as standard.