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LG’s new Stylus DAB+ smartphone is unique in that it has 5.7” screen, capacitive (passive) stylus, and a DAB+ and FM radio.

Media Minister Sven Gatz today announced its future plans for the Flemish radio. He gives full support to the digital switchover to digital radio within five years.

The Walloon government has made 5.4 million Euro available for the rollout of digital terrestrial radio.

This model comes with the likes of six airbags, sat nav, alloy wheels, air conditioning, HID headlights, front electric windows, rear privacy glass, DAB radio and Bluetooth.

Car comes complete with and a top-mounted tablet style multi media unit with integrated sat nav, Bluetooth, a 13-speaker Burmester audio system with digital radio and even a digital TV tuner.

Pricing and specification for the all-new Abarth 595 have just been announced by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles UK. All versions are equipped with Uconnect 5-inch DAB Radio with touchscreen and Uconnect Live services as standard equipment.

All Flemish rural radios will have to make the transition from analogue to digital. The intention is that in a few years all national radio stations will only be available digitally. When the analogue 'switch off' will happen, depends on the speed of which DAB+ is picked up, but it is planned for 2022-2023.

The government announced today the funding “for DAB+, the future of radio”. Operators will now focus on building out the network, and marketing digital radio to listeners.

Audi disagrees with radio broadcasters in Europe that FM, digital and internet audio services need to be offered side by side in future cars because the move would hamper automakers' efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. "Let’s focus on two instead of three," said Holger Hees, Audi's head of development for broadcast radio, TV and optical media drivers. The options Hees supports are digital and internet, he told the WorldDAB Automotive 2016 conference in Brussels on Wednesday.

Government Ministries, car manufacturers and the radio industry today gathered in Brussels on Wednesday at WorldDAB's 'Drive to Digital - Europe' event to push for further adoption of DAB digital radio in the car.