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The first Swiss FM station may be switched off as early as 2019 Switzerland.

During the Dutch Guild of Multi-Media Engineers meeting in November, Tom Visser, of the Ministerie van Economische Zaken (Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs), announced that in 2015 the government would decide whether or not to shut down FM frequencies and switch completely to digital.

Come the new year, the radio industry will be generating its audience figures with audience measuring company GfK, after 66 years with research company Nielson.

The German winter cross media campaign for digital radio has been launched by Initiative Digitalradio Deutschland. The planners rely on fancy display texts and humorous online spots that illustrate emotions , digital radio and its everyday and future viability. Promotional activities that include advertorials, online banners and so-called webisodes will run throughout the Christmas season into the new year.

The European Broadcasting Union has formed the Strategic Program on Digital Radio Platforms. The group’s chair Javier Sánchez Perez announced a technical recommendation at the Digital Radio Summit in Geneva.

New digital transmitters in Herefordshire and Worcestershire means BBC Hereford & Worcester, Free Radio and Sunshine Radio join the DAB line-up. The new multiplex was officially switched-on this morning.

Emitel has defeated competitor Polskie Sieci Nadawcze i Bcast, and will provide the transmission of terrestrial digital signals of Polish Radio in Warsaw, Katowice and Silesian agglomeration from 2014 for three years, reports Rpkom.pl.

In the German-speaking part of Switzerland, two new regional DAB+ networks were switched on by Swiss operator Media Cast.

Here's a perfectly fair question to ask about portable radios: why would you spend $100 or more on a digital when the analog equivalent is one-quarter the cost?

The new Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) radio transmitters, which will serve Herefordshire and Worcestershire, will be turned on by West Worcestershire MP Harriett Baldwin and former Worcester Warriors stalwart Craig Gillies during a ceremony on Friday.