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Australia has released the first, ever, public audience research into DAB+ radio listening in Australia's capital cities. The report shows that sales of DAB+ devices have reached more than 1.9 million. Twenty seven vehicle manufacturers in Australia are now including DAB+ digital radio and 276,822 vehicles with DAB+ have been sold.

Today CRA has released some audience numbers for the commercial radio DAB+ only stations. It’s an average of the GfK results from surveys 2, 3, and 4 this year. It see’s that the DAB+ audience is now at a high of nearly 3.2 million people, across the five state metro markets.

Seminars on digital broadcasting have been organised for iTVF, the Turkish Broadcasting Industry's conference and exhibition, taking place in Istanbul, March 1-3 2016 and helped by WorldDAB.

The best words to describe it are deep, sweet and complex; a truly immersive audio experience, which is rare in a digital radio, certainly from a unit small enough to sit on the kitchen bench or your bedside table.

The results for the first announcement of DAB digital only station listener numbers has been released this morning by GfK in a DAB Digital Radio Report.

Th Bush Heritage II Connect is a DAB+ radio with FM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, internet radio, Spotify Connect and multiroom abilities. With its many available presets you can use it like a simple household radio, selecting digital radio stations, FM or internet radio stations straight from the unit itself.

Ofcom have announced that the local radio multiplex licence for Suffolk has been awarded to Muxco Suffolk Limited. As part of the new service, BBC Suffolk, Heart and Smooth will join the multiplex, and two new digital-only stations, Suffolk First (Lincs FM) and Anglia (Town & Country) will also be broadcast.

Czech Radiokomunikace has launched experimental digital radio broadcasting on the DAB multiplex from the Prague-Zizkov transmitter. The broadcasts will cover Prague and part of Central Bohemia.

Entrepreneur founder of KISS Radio, Gordon Mac, has taken his new station, MiSoul, onto digital radio after three years as an online entity... "moving on to DAB is significant as, from next year, its audience will be assessed by the official radio monitor, Rajar, and it can woo serious advertisers".

A new commercial radio station is launching in Glasgow on DAB next month as part of the small-scale DAB experiment.