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A guide to digital radio in Poland
01.11.2016 - PolandDigital radio can currently be received in the following cities: Bialystok, Kielce, Koszalin, Krakow, Lublin, Lodz, Opole, Poznan, Rzeszow, Szczecin, Torun, Tri-City, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Zielona Gora. Trial transmissions are also being conducted in the area of Siedlce.
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First impression: Pure Siesta S2 digital clock radio
01.11.2016 - Pure - NetherlandsPure Siesta S2 is a simply designed box. The front is a black screen, the case is white or black. The display is beautiful to see and switches in low light automatically to a lower intensity
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Revised Mitsubishi ASX SUV on sale now
01.11.2016 - United KingdomASX 3 is priced from £18,349 and includes DAB radio, automatic Xenon headlights and wipers, climate control, heated front seats and a reversing camera
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Jaguar F-Type: specs and prices
01.11.2016 - United KingdomA touchscreen infotainment system kitted with satellite navigation is also a standard feature, as well as Bluetooth connectivity and a DAB digital radio.
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Digital radio grows in Switzerland
01.11.2016 - SRG SSR WorldDAB Member - SwitzerlandBy expanding the DAB+ signal SRG SSR supply increases in Switzerland to over 100 radio programs. Listeners can more SRG program received other language regions: Radio SRF 3, Couleur 3 and Rete Tre can be heard almost all over the country. Is considerably extended and the transmission area of the regional news from Radio SRF. 1
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Swiss DAB+ radio network set to expand
01.11.2016 - SwitzerlandDAB+ radio broadcasting will be extended to over 100 Swiss radio stations in mid-November. Under the next phase of the roll-out, Radio SRF 3, Couleur 3 and Rete Tre will be available across the country, and the broadcast range of SRF 1 will be expanded.
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One-man radio station now has 35,000 listeners
01.11.2016 - United KingdomChris Country became available in parts of the UK on DAB digital radio earlier this year. Rajar figures reveal that in London, 35,000 listeners tune into Chris Country every week; and each listen for an average of 8.2 hours a week. 8.2 is a very high figure for a digital-exclusive station: the most popular digital station, Kisstory, only achieves 5.5 hours a week.
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The power of words at Next Radio
01.11.2016 - United KingdomThe UK Radio Festival included a significant first speech from Britain’s new minister for Digital Matt Hancock. He announced that the trials of small-scale DAB, using freely-available software and equipment costing from £9,000 ($11,500), had been “highly successful and showed that the small scale approach to DAB transmission is technically sound.”
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Final green light for the digitisation of Flemish radio landscape
01.11.2016 - BelgiumThe Flemish government has published a draft decree on the future radio landscape. Minister Gatz outlined how the decree must ensure that the radio landscape is diverse and how digital radio is a key part of this.
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New Dutch and Flemish digital radio station planned
01.11.2016 - BelgiumThe Flemish government turned on green light for the reform of the radio landscape. They outlined that the plan should ensure that the national radio's move from analogue (FM) to digital (DAB+) and that the local radios to be strengthened. There will also be three or four commercial network radios. One of them is a Flemish channel, with particular attention to Flemish and Dutch music.
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