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The coverage of the DAB+ network in Germany will be significantly expanded over the next eighteen months.

Digital radio has reached a turning point in Europe. The first countries have decided a date for change and many others have politically backed digital radio.

On June 11, several of Europe's leading radio operators will gather in Oslo to discuss the future of radio. Representatives of the radio industry in the Netherlands, Belgium and Poland will also give presentations on challenges and initiatives in their home countries.

However, DAB digital radio - through a box that looks like a typical radio - is 25.9% of all radio listening; and it grew by 9.3% year-on-year.

Strong growth for DAB to 25.9 percent (up 9.3 percent) and internet/apps to 6.8 percent (up 6.3 percent). Nearly half of all UK households (49 percent) now have a digital radio set. Digital listening in car grows 52 percent, to 16 percent of hours in-car.

Hossein Yassaie is CEO of Imagination Technologies, and he has been head of the graphics company for quite some time – since 1998, in fact. Yassaie also kicked off the firm's Pure division when he saw a gap in the digital radio market, and while the initial intention might not have been to shift products to consumers – the first radio was really meant as a demo platform for Pure's DAB chip – success quickly led to a range of DAB radios (like the Evoke), portable wireless speakers, iPhone docks and the like.

Recent research on DAB radio notes that 7 million Italians know what digital radio is and that there are already more than one million receivers active in the market. The auto market is responding with 200 models with DAB radio.

AgCom has published the plan of frequencies for digital radio in 40 new regions.

With 2.17 million listeners, the channel, which airs classic comedy, dramas and documentaries, has overtaken 6 Music and classical music station Radio 3.

Network operator Media Broadcast has presented further plans for the network expansion of DAB+ radio multiplexes in Germany which will expanded to 110 transmitters by the end of 2016.