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There are leather seats that can be electrically-adjusted and heated, a six-speaker sound system, seven-inch touchscreen with sat nav, DAB digital radio, a reversing camera, Bluetooth connectivity, dual zone air conditioning and plenty more besides.

Inovonics is introducing two new monitor projects aimed at DAB/DAB+ stations. The new 660 DAB/DAB+ Confidence Monitor will provide off-air reception of all standard DAB & DAB+ broadcasts in a compact INOmini package.

Available on DAB+, the new station follows the Jack FM model, which is popular in the US, where listeners pick from thousands of songs on the station’s app, which then enter its daily playlist according to popularity.

A radio station offering a 10-minute rolling news service for the UK is set to launch on DAB digital radio. News Radio UK will provide news, sport, business, showbiz, weather and travel news on a 10 minute loop 24 hours a day when it launches on ...

AKOS has issued licences for 13 stations for Slovenia's first DAB+ network. In addition to 4 stations from public broadcaster RTV Slovenia, 9 additional stations were awarded a licence for digital broadcasting. The network will be officially operational on September 19th.

The Aurion comes loaded with a decent suite of gear including a seven-inch colour screen housing satellite navigation with real-time traffic updates, Bluetooth phone and audio connectivity, Toyota connected mobility apps and a digital radio tuner that cranks sound via a 10-speaker JBL sound system.

Working with its distributor Radica, Inovonics is releasing two new DAB/DAB+ monitors. The INOmini 660 is a DAB/DAB+ confidence monitor for Band II broadcasts. The INOmini 662 DAB/DAB+ is the latest in Inovonics’ SiteStreamer line of internet-powered remote monitors.

The+Radio DAB+ stereo may have an awkward name, but the FM/DAB radio with Bluetooth streaming aims to be as straightforward as possible.The wireless sources for the radio are FM, DAB (DAB+ for mainland Europe) and Bluetooth.

The annual Digitalradiotag event was held yesterday at IFA Berlin and key figures about the growth of digital radio in Germnay were unveiled. During his keynote, Sigfried Schneider, Chairman of the DLM and President of the BLM, stated that DAB+ has a major role in the digitisation of the radio.

Better sound (stereo or multichannel), adding or not synchronized data to the audio (scrolling text, images, information, websites), enrichment of radio offering (more stations than FM alone), broadcast cost lower than that of FM. Digital radio broadcasting has several key advantages which play in its favor. And yet France hastens slowly.