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On 27 July, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation officially passed the AM For Every Vehicle Act on to the Senate floor. The Act would direct the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to issue a rule requiring automakers to maintain AM broadcast radio in their vehicles without a separate or additional payment, fee or surcharge. It says AM should be clearly visible on the vehicle’s dashboard; and until the new standard would take effect, cars lacking AM radio receivers would have to be labeled as such for buyers.

Arcom and its partners present the results of the survey of household audiovisual equipment for the past year, which includes data for the second half of 2022 for television and the full year 2022 for radio. 13.7% of people aged 13 and over are equipped with a DAB+ fixed radio or clock radio. DAB+-compatible car radios continue to increase in 2022, with 16.8% of people aged 13 and over now equipped with a DAB+-compatible car radio (+2.6 points in one year).

Radioplayer announces a new record level of investment from its members to fund new innovation in digital radio, heralded by the Radioplayer members finalising a new long-term agreement. The new era will see Radioplayer deliver further growth of its in-car and connected devices strategy, through recruitment of staff and significant investment in technology development, setting the trajectory across Europe and beyond.

Following the announcement by the National Communications Authority (NCA) about the commencement of trials for Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) in Accra and Kumasi, the Authority engaged with selected stakeholders involved in the upcoming trials. The stakeholders included the selected 16 FM stations as well as KNET, the partners for the project.

The Italian radio and television offer is enriched with a new leading player in sports communication. Radio TV Serie A with RDS is born - on air in DAB and IP mode, visible on digital terrestrial via extension of the Radio-TV channel, on the Lega Serie A website and APP, as well as on the RDS website and APP - starting on Saturday, August 19 to coincide with the start of the championship and created in partnership between the Lega Serie A and RDS 100% Grandi Successi.

The radio station OLDIE ANTENNE will be heard nationwide via DAB+ from 31 July 2023. Up to now, the station could be received partly nationally in eight federal states. "For Oldie Antenne, we have received a great deal of demand from listeners all over Germany in recent months: they very much want to be able to listen to their favourite station via DAB+ in their homes and cars," explains Felix Kovac, CEO of the Antenne Bayern Group, to which Oldie Antenne belongs.

In Bulgaria, a new DAB+ test ensemble has gone on the air. After the multiplex of Digital Audio Bulgaria with 16 programmes, which was on the air from 2017 to 2021 as part of an operational trial, the mobile radio provider Vivacom is now testing digital radio: since mid-July, the ensemble with 15 programmes has been broadcast in the Sofia area on channel 11B.

Since 12 July, the regional radio station Fusion FM has been covering Clermont-Ferrand and the surrounding area on DAB+. The Fusion FM team opted for DAB+, with digital broadcasting now operational for a few days. This digital broadcast will be complemented by an analogue FM broadcast on frequency 94.0, starting in September. A category B station, Fusion FM is historically based in Diou, a commune in the Allier region.

The Danish media group JFM, formerly known as Jysk Fynske Medier, has launched a radio station for the LGBT+ community on air. Alletiders Regnbue Hits - the greatest rainbow hits of all time - can be received via DAB+ in the greater Copenhagen area as well as in Greater and Western Jutland. The station features music with a connection to the LGBT+ community from the 1970s to today.

The DAB+ stations of the Swiss-German layer OCH 02 of SwissMediaCast will in future be available in Klosters, Davos, Arosa and Lenzerheide. The two transmitters in Davos and Klosters were switched on on 22 June 2023. The transmitter in Mon for coverage of Lenzerheide and Albula/Alvra will follow on 3 August 2023. The transmitter in Arosa is planned for 7 September 2023. This means that another important tourist region will be supplied with DAB+.