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On Monday 7 April a delegation from Thailand’s radio and government visited NRK. They visited in order to see how things are done in the first country to officially announce that it will switch off FM. FM switch off could happen as early as 2017 as long as certain coverage and listening requirements are met. Thailand is also on the road to digitizing its radio industry and started on the process about a year ago.

Thai authorities have visited Oslo to gain more knowledge about how Norway is planning the transition from FM to digital broadcasting.

Skoda is to become the latest manufacturer offering a corporate-specific trim level, following on from the likes of Vauxhall's Tech Line editions of cars with lower P11D prices but still offering the levels of specification valued by business car drivers, such as satnav and DAB radio.

The German company Sonoro Audio presents new audio players for every room of our home and has developed a new line of audio equipment with DAB/DAB+.

Chairman of the National Council of Radio and Television Jan Dworak is in no doubt that the future of radio in Poland will be digital saying 'There is no other way. Radio can not remain an analog island in a digital world '. The National Council of Radio and TV stations want to get involved in the digitization of radio with the Polish government.

The issues of further development of digital terrestrial television and the beginning of the digitization of broadcasting dominate discussions at the conference "The future of media in Poland", which began in Poznan. The second day of the conference will be devoted to digital radio, and will be guided by the slogan "Digital radio - more than radio."

2wcom Systems of Flensburg, Germany, will launch four products for IP radio, audio contribution via satellite and IP, and DAB/DAB+ applications.

The French-speaking part of Switzerland will have commercial radio via DAB+ in 2014 with radio stations to broadcast via the second DAB network.

The R&S THV9 and R&S TMV9 transmitter families cover much more than ISDB-TB and ATSC. They also support DAB, DAB+, T-DMB, DVB-T/DVB-H, DVB-T2, DTMB and analog TV standards.

Research on comparing the costs of supply of radio transmission in Bavaria through DAB+ or LTE is now available. The analysis was commissioned by Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien (BLM) and Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR).