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Wireless Group’s Belfast-based station U105 has gone on to digital radio for the first time this week. It’s been on FM since launching in November 2005, but has now gone Northern Ireland-wide on the country’s DAB multiplex.

Just in time for the summer get-away, ARD and Deutschlandradio have expanded the DAB+ transmitter networks in the holiday regions of Germany. DAB+ is now available in most north and east coastal spots, the Bavarian Alps, the Bavarian Forest, the Bodensee region and the Black Forest.

After six months without nationwide FM broadcasts in parts of the country, surveys show that listeners remain loyal to radio “Digitisation provides more radio channels across the country. This gives the listeners more channels to choose from, and will secure radio as a strong and relevant medium in the years to come,” says Ole Jørgen Torvmark, CEO of Digitalradio Norway.

Just in time for the summer get-away, ARD and Deutschlandradio have expanded the DAB+ transmitter networks in the holiday regions of Germany. DAB+ is now available in most north and east coastal spots, the Bavarian Alps, the Bavarian Forest, the Bodensee region and the Black Forest.

Every Chic model comes fitted with DAB digital radio and Bluetooth.

Just in time for the summer holiday season, ARD and Deutschlandradio have expanded the DAB+ transmitter networks across the holiday regions of Germany. DAB + is now audible in most of the well-known German holiday regions. More generally, DAB+ availability is increasing across Europe - 56 per cent of Europeans can now receive digital radio.

Media Broadcast, Germany's largest transmission provider, is adding four additional national DAB+ transmission sites to its nationwide digital radio network, broadcasting on Channel 5C. The focus of the development is in the Lower Saxony and Brandenburg regions.

The Bauer station is now available on the Digital One multiplex as it changes its playlist to offer a bigger point of difference to the main KISS FM UK service. KISS Fresh will play more new tracks across the dance, house, hip-hop and RnB genres.

Digital radio progress was celebrated at a special Digital Radio Summer Reception on Monday at Global in London...Most of the UK now has access to over fifty DAB stations, with many of the major cities having access to over seventy.

Media Broadcast is to expand the channel network for the German national DAB+ radio offering in channel 5C. Further transmitter locations in the Federal territory will be added in the coming weeks, which will further optimise the supply of DAB+ nationally. The main focus of the project will be in rural areas of Baden-Württemberg (connected to the network on 20 April 2017), Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein.