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As Sweden moves full force toward digitization, industry players have launched the Digital Radio website. The new site, managed by transmission service company Teracom, informs visitors of the advantages that terrestrial digital radio brings. It also highlights experiences from other countries and shares technical information necessary for industry professionals

Radio World First Irish-language youth station goes digital.

Radio World Event to focus on optimal user experience for service following and traffic announcements.

Plans to extend local digital radio coverage in Great Britain moved a step closer today.

Listeners were invited to design an outer cover for a limited edition DAB Radio - which will now be made by Tivoli Audio and sold to raise money for BBC Children in Need.

Key 103, Bauer Radio's Manchester radio station, is to broadcast a special pop-up digital station called Key 103D tomorrow (4 July) to highlight the launch of the city's enhanced DAB signal. Key 103: readies pop-up station.

The switching-on of a new digital radio transmitter in Manchester has prompted Bauer station Key 103 to launch a pop-up station. The extra station will only be on-air for a day though, and will be called Key 103D.

CEO of Digital Radio UK, Ford Ennals, said: ”The Manchester signal boost is great news as it brings the full line-up of digital radio stations to 250000 more people."

Toumaz Ltd. (Abingdon, England) has agreed to buy fabless DAB radio chip firm Frontier Silicon (Holdings) Ltd. (London, England) for up to £32.3 million (about $50 million).

The new transmitter marks the culmination of four years of investment by broadcasters to deliver digital radio across Greater Manchester. From tomorrow, nearly 90% of Manchester households can receive the full line-up of 42 digital stations.