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Digital radio is gradually coming to Africa. Despite the cost, some countries are already introducing this technology, which should make it possible to reach more listeners, by giving them a better quality of listening.

Several countries in Europe are considering the transition to the all-digital DAB+. The biggest change for listeners is getting DAB+ in the car, Jean-Marc Dubreuil, from WorldDAB said "If you have an audio input on your car radio, you add a small module in your car, an antenna, and your radio becomes digital. The quality of listening is much better. It's a dream! The adaptor costs between 100 and 150 euros."

World Radio Day, next Monday, February 13, 2017, marks the start of the preliminary phase of the quadrilingual campaign which will move the radio in an emblematic way to move from the analogous standard to the digital standard. Entitled "La radio déménage", this campaign will feature first distracting radio spots on many radio programs.

Digital radio DAB+ is destined to be the successor to FM and some 130 digital radio stations are already available in Switzerland. New data shows that 54% of listening in Switzerland is now via digital and the digital switchover is planned for 2020 in Switzerland.

The trend towards digitalisation continues: in Switzerland 54 percent of the radio is already consumed digitally. This is shown by a survey conducted by GfK Switzerland.

The family friendly radio station, Radio TEDDY, has officially launched on DAB+ in Baden-Württemberg.

In Switzerland, 54% of radio listening is now digital, as revealed in a new report by GfK. In Switzerland consumers listened to an average of 54 minutes via digital - via DAB+ or IP, one minute more than in the first half of 2016.

Almost 6 in 10 adults (aged 15+) currently listen to radio via a digital platform, according to the latest Rajar results for the final quarter of 2016. In an average week, digital listening accounts for 474 million hours - with DAB holding a 73% share of digital listening hours, digital TV 11% and online 16%.

It’s a smaller, less powerful version of the ISX-80 wireless speaker, with added DAB radio (hence the "D" suffix).

Digital listening in the UK has increased year-over-year to 45.2% share, up from 41.7% in Q4 2015, boosted by record levels of DAB digital listening, according to Rajar Q4 2016 data. Digital listening hours grew by 12% or 51.3 million hours compared to Q4 2015, driven by record growth in DAB hours which increased by 23% and online hours which increased by 14%.