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Digital Radio UK is taking its ‘Doing the DAB’ event to Northern Ireland, following the success of sessions across England and Scotland. Doing the DAB: Belfast will be part of the Belfast Media Festival on 17th November, with speakers confirmed so far including people from the BBC and commercial radio operators in Northern Ireland.

Speakers including Culture Minister Mette Bock, Teracom Boss, Martin Løbel and BBC's Steve Titherington, spoke at a press conference on the expansion of DAB+ across Denmark. DAB+ provides listeners with radio that is not dependant on IP or dictated by algorithms with more choice compared to standard FM. Watch the videos.

The UK “Minister for Digital”, Matt Hancock, delivered a video address in last week’s “Drive to Digital” conference in London. Hancock’s half-hour included a plea to radio receiver manufacturers to make their sets “digital by default” - a rather political phrase by which he meant that analogue AM/FM radios should be removed from the shelves.

On October 1, Denmark moved from DAB to DAB+, launching 12 additional radio channels including services from BBC, Extra Bladet and Bauer Media.

The show contains the latest radio news of the digital radio switchover in Norway from Ole Jørgen Torvmark and a roundup of the Drive To Digital conference from Ford Ennals.

The week is Digital Radio Week at Digital Radio NL, the collaboration of public and commercial radio stations, for the promotion of digital radio in the Netherlands. Every year, the initiative is held, which allows listeners to win DAB+ radio receivers.

The conversion of FM to DAB has resulted in a fierce sale of DAB + radios and adapters for cars at Elkjøp. "The most important thing for us when it comes to the conversion from FM to DAB + is to help most people to get as easy and smooth transition as possible. Regardless of DAB + radio for home or car adapter, says Kristian Pedersen, Sales Manager for Audio and Image at Elkjøp Norway.

It may seem like an insurmountable task to mount DAB in the car. It is not. In fact, it only takes a few minutes with a little planning. The hardest job is to mount the antenna and get the hidden antenna cable in a good way, but with a little planning and proper tools it's easy.

At the end of the year, there will be over one and a half million cars that will need an alternative solution to get DAB+ in their car. One of the most popular solutions is to purchase a DAB adaptor which will allow you to access the DAB+ channels via an external device. Here's a quick guide to how to do it, what to think about, and not least what traps you need to avoid.

Radio listeners in the Wismar region of Germany are now getting their NDR programs in even better quality. The new Wismar DAB+ transmitter supplies the A20 between the connection points Grevesmühlen and Neukloster.