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Austria's first radio station exclusively aimed at children has taken launched in Austria. First launched in Vienna in 2014, Mein Kinderradio is now available to 77% of people in Austria on DAB+.

Digital listening in the UK has increased by 11% to a new record of 58.5%, up from 52.6% in Q4 2018 in the latest figures for Q4 2019. Listening via DAB grew by 16.1 million hours (or by 4%) year on year to now account for 41% of all listening and 70% of digital listening.

Measurement of national channels shows an overall positive trend over the last three years, with radio listening continuing to rise. With the challenge from global platforms it remains important for Norway to have strong national and local radio channels. Norwegians spend 90 minutes on radio daily and the medium remains central to people's everyday lives.

Digital transmissions on DAB waveband, channel 9C, started in Tenerife in December 2019. The transmitter is located on the Teide, the highest active volcano in the Atlantic ocean and also the highest mountain in Spain (3.718 m). In total there are nine programmes transmitted on the multiplex.

Frontier Smart Technologies is helping to enrich the digital radio experience by supporting integration of full colour displays into DAB+ radios. All Frontier modules now include support for a colour user interface, which allows users to benefit from the Slideshow services being offered by leading broadcasters around the world.

Held in Paris at the end of January, the European Radio and Digital Audio Show brought together stakeholders from across the French radio industry and beyond to discuss the future of radio in France, Europe and around the world. It also served as a platform to highlight the opportunities DAB+ digital radio brings for the radio, manufacturing, retail and automotive sectors.

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The WorldDAB General Assembly 2020 will take place in Prague, Czech Republic on 3-4 November 2020. The event will see over 200 experts from across the broadcast, automotive and receiver manufacturer industries come together to discuss the future of digital radio.

The Saxon State Institute for Private Broadcasting and New Media and the Digital Audio Broadcasting Platform have been able to resolve their long-standing legal dispute out of court, which finally clears the way for the second national DAB+ DAB+ multiplex. Consumers across Germany will soon benefit from an additional 16 digital radio programs.

At the end of 2019, all tunnels over 300 meters long located across major national roads in Switzerland - approximately 200 tunnels in total - were equipped with DAB+ reception signals.