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The Volkswagen Golf comes with DAB as standard.

LBC, which celebrated its 40th anniversary last year, will go national on DAB digital radio from 11 February. Parent company Global Radio, the UK's largest commercial radio company, is investing millions of pounds into LBC after securing a licence from broadcasting regulator Ofcom to take the station national.

In an Australian radio first, Coles supermarkets and dmg Radio Australia have signed a major partnership to digitally stream Coles Radio to over 750 stores - reaching over 14 million customers nationally, every week.

The South African DAB+ trial will consist of two high power transmitting stations (10kw transmitter power) 100kw ERP situated in Johannesburg and Pretoria in the province of Gauteng. The trial will operate as a SFN in VHF band III on Channel 13F on a frequency of 239.200MHz. This will happen after coverage verification at transmitter powers of 2kw, 5kw, and 10kw. The total area covered by the trial is 21185km2 and the total gross population covered is 10,705,387 (21.5% of total SA population). It is envisaged that between 18 and 20 radio stations from the Public, Commercial and Community sectors will participate in the trial.

WorldDMB, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Swiss public broadcaster, SSR SRG, are working together to ensure that visitors to the 2014 Geneva Motor Show experience the best that DAB+ can offer in terms of audio and visual radio service.

Almost all Volkswagens are immediately available with DAB + (Digital Audio Broadcasting), or digital radio reception. Website reported dichtbij.nl.

MTG-owned P4 had the same logo for over 20 years, but now it's time for change. The occasion is the transition to DAB and the launch of new channels.

The reception of terrestrial digital radio DAB has improved in central Germany. Last Thursday, the regional public broadcaster MDR brought three new channels into use.

DIGITALFERNSEHEN.de features an article on digital radio and its ecological impact. The author compares the transmission costs for a radio program broadcast via MW, FM and DAB+.

Tune into the show presented by Slawek Szefs with Agnieszka Bielawska whose studio guest this week is Rafal Kiepuszewski, deputy director of Polish Radio External Service, who will provide an update on the progress made in the organisations DAB+ project.