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Digital Radio UK announced that 35.4% of new car registered in Q1 this year were fitted with digital radio as standard, according to 2013 SMMT/CAP data, an increase from 22.5% on Q1 2012.

35.4% of new cars now come with digital radio as standard according to new Q1 2013 CAP/SMMT data released today (an increase from 22.5% in Q1 2012 and from 9.9% in Q1 2011).

The presence of the general director of RAI and Luigi Gubitosi is a signal of the acceleration towards DAB+ in Italy.

The process of digital penetration has started a few months ago at the national level with a pilot project in Trentino and, as a result of the issuance of rights of use on the part of ' AGCOM consortia, will also extend to the rest of Italy. Starting from the north of Italy with the presence of digital networks spread created directly by consortia such as Club DAB Italy, RAI and by consortia of local radio stations.

San Jose, CA - Apr 10, 2013 - Maxim Integrated Products announced the MAX2173 RF to Bits tuner for digital audio broadcast (DAB) applications in automobiles and other mobile DAB/FM products.

All in Media, a developer of broadcast systems and mobile apps, has supplied its radio broadcast system, Rapid, to Club DAB Italia to streamline the management and publishing of visual radio services as part of the new digital radio roll out in Italy. This project is being developed in partnership with the Swedish company Factum, which recently provided a new DAB head-end system to Club DAB Italia using the latest platform.

The forum is composed of the following companies: Ceske Radiokomunikace a.s. (DAB network operator), Cesky rozhlas, Gama Media s.r.o. (GAMA Radio), Lagardere Active CR, a.s. (radio Frequence 1), LONDA spol. s r.o. (radio Impuls), RADIO PROGLAS s.r.o., RTI cz, s.r.o. (DAB network operator), SeeJay Radio s.r.o. and TELEKO, s.r.o. (DAB network operator).

Maxim Integrated Products has designed a tuner IC for digital audio broadcast (DAB) applications which integrates a radio tuner, analogue-to-digital converter (ADC), and digital filtering, and uses a digital I2S output.

Introduced as the industry's first RF to Bits DAB/FM tuner integrates a radio tuner, analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and digital filtering, and uses a digital I2S output to interface directly to digital signal processors (DSPs).