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This year DLM Symposium on 20 March in Berlin will focus on the current state of audience measurement and how radio providers are increasingly digitizing their services

Principal sponsor WorldDMB and major sponsors Sony, Harris Broadcast, Grass Valley and EMC are among the key industry partners participating in the ABU Digital Broadcasting Symposium 2014, taking place in Kuala Lumpur on 4-7 March.

A packed conference room at the EBU for the 2014 Digital Radio Summit was a clear sign of the growing optimism around digital radio across Europe. The conversation has largely moved beyond questions of which transmission standards to use. The hot topics now relate to strategies for planning digital switchover, the need for cross-industry collaboration, the importance of in-car multimedia, and cracking the smartphone market.

The latest Rajar results for the fourth quarter of 2013 show that the share of all radio listening via a digital platform was up 10% year on year (YoY), with 27.7 million (52%) people now tuning in to radio via a digitally enabled receiver each week.In terms of devices, DAB radio remained the most popular, accounting for 65% of all digital hours,

Global's talk radio network LBC, self-styled as 'London's Biggest Conversation', became a national station today on DAB radio.

Alfa Romeo Giulietta now comes with DAB as standard.

According to the latest RAJAR figures, 91 per cent of the UK listened to some form of radio in the past three months, the highest figure since 1999. That’s 48.4 million adults (15+) listening to an average of 21.3 hours a week, with 52 per cent exploiting modern listening techniques via DAB or online streaming.

RadioHack 2014 brought some 46 developers, engineers and other technology experts to the EBU during Digital Radio Week. One of the projects carried out at RadioHack 2014 is DABerry, which is a hybrid digital receiver based on the Raspberry Pi; another is new developments based on CRC mmb Tools, including low-cost DAB transmitter boards, single-frequency network support, and DAB micro-cells running in a set-top box, fed with audio from a satellite receiver

On Thursday 6th February FGA (Fiat Group Automobiles) hosted a successful meeting of WorldDMB and Italian digital radio industry representatives. The event was an opportunity for WorldDMB and FGA to discuss common goals and provided a platform for WorldDMB to build a relationship with one of the fastest growing automotive brands offering digital radio in-car.

Fiat is now offering digital radio in its 500L range with DAB+ being available for €110 in all of its models. Dab+ is also included in some special editions.