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Last month, Radioinfo posted an article by Australian expat and media researcher, John Patkin, now based in Hong Kong, who argued that AM/FM and DAB+ would become obsolete as internet or online delivery became ubiquitous. The article brought swift response from industry heavyweights such as CRA’s CEO Joan Warner, the ABC’s Director of Radio, Michael Mason and international radio futurologist, James Cridland.

The new OBSERVA Multiplex Supervisor from Factum Radioscape provides continuous validation and supervision of DAB/DAB+ multiplexes. It is designed for broadcasters and network operators, the Multiplex Supervisor provides evidence of output to a distribution network with live monitoring and optional analysis of a complete DAB/DAB+ multiplex.

Ministerien, Autohersteller und die Radioindustrie versammelten sich heute in Brüssel, um die weitere Verbreitung von DAB-Digitalradios in Fahrzeugen voranzutreiben. Auf der Veranstaltung, die unter dem Motto ‚Drive to Digital - Europe’ stand und in Zusammenhang mit der niederländischen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft ausgerichtet wurde, forderten Regierungsvertreter aus Deutschland, dem Vereinigten Königreich und den Niederlanden gemeinsam mit der französischen Medienregulierungsbehörde und leitenden Repräsentanten der Rundfunk- und Automobilindustrie eine europäische Vision für das Digitalradio DAB.

Government Ministries, car manufacturers and the radio industry today gathered in Brussels to push for further adoption of DAB digital radio in the car. At WorldDAB’s ‘Drive to Digital - Europe’ event, produced in association with the Netherlands EU Presidency, government officials from Germany, the UK and the Netherlands were joined by the French media regulator and senior representatives from the broadcast and automotive industries as they called for a European vision for DAB digital radio.

In eight months FM signals in Norway start to shut down. The LG Stylus with DAB+ enables listening on-the-go with a robust signal, low battery usage and no extra data charges.

In his remarkable contribution to the BLM President and DLM chairman Siegfried Schneider + summarizes important ideas for the further development of DAB in Germany. Decisive for him are also the fair starting conditions for private broadcasters to concentrate on this new technology in addition to the public service broadcasting. As was the joint successful market penetration of DAB + reach. At the European level are necessary in his view, further steps. Remarkably he submitted the proposal to require the automotive industry that each offered new car radio is equipped with both FM and DAB + receiver.

The car comes with air-con, sat-nav, Bluetooth and a DAB radio.

Radio Mexico, the former pirate radio station in Den Bosch, returns to the airwaves after five years. The radio station has signed a contract for the next three years to broadcast on DAB+.

Parrot Automotive, a leading player in the field of Connected Automotive Infotainment and the best-in-class provider of radio solutions in mobility, is proud to introduce the Octopus 3+.

Today sees the launch of a six week integrated marketing campaign in which they will drop $5mil to promote the LG Stylus DAB+, the world’s first smartphone with built-in DAB+.