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Toumaz fourth generation digital radio solutions are now shipping in volumes
28.05.2015 - Frontier Smart Technologies WorldDAB Member - United Kingdom![United Kingdom United Kingdom](/assets/flags/gb-1674fbf6dc097793ed59ab21f9925986.gif)
The performance of the digital radio business has been buoyed by strong international developments. Norway became the first country in the world to confirm a date (2017) for Digital Switchover.
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PURE Germany boss comments on current digital radio events
27.05.2015 - Pure - Germany![Germany Germany](/assets/flags/de-f019892c041af467039bbe73df453b05.gif)
"DAB+ offers the consumers a real added value: listeners who use the digital broadcast standard, have benefited from a better reception, additional information and additional pictures." says Ralf Reynolds, Chief of PURE Germany.
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Planned DAB+ programs in Vienna
27.05.2015 - Austria![Austria Austria](/assets/flags/at-67390350decbc62c0b08d941a5e8d93c.gif)
In Vienna, the DAB+ trial will include 17 stations. The official transmission for Vienna digital radio is 28 May.
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Radio and online create greatest ROI for advertisers
26.05.2015 - Commercial Radio & Audio WorldDAB Member - Malaysia![Malaysia Malaysia](/assets/flags/my-5ac35bd287d055fe90937003528c6ac2.gif)
Using examples from Australia and South Africa, he highlighted the flexibility of digital radio for allowing pop up stations such as special events and festival stations that appear for a few weeks at a time on the digital dial.
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Major nationwide expansion of the DAB network
26.05.2015 - Germany![Germany Germany](/assets/flags/de-f019892c041af467039bbe73df453b05.gif)
The coverage of the DAB+ network in Germany will be significantly expanded over the next eighteen months.
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Digital Radio is spreading fast across Europe
26.05.2015 -![WorldDAB News WorldDAB News](/assets/icon_worlddab-86a673f856ffd574dcbcd4a202521cc3.png)
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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.
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Digital summit in Oslo
26.05.2015 - Norway![Norway Norway](/assets/flags/no-3a912b38df26cd2185f34aabbddedc01.gif)
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.
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Four Things To Learn From The UK's Radio Audience Figures
26.05.2015 - United Kingdom![United Kingdom United Kingdom](/assets/flags/gb-1674fbf6dc097793ed59ab21f9925986.gif)
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.
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RAJAR Data Indicate Continuing Increases in Digital Radio Listenership Across UK
26.05.2015 - United Kingdom![United Kingdom United Kingdom](/assets/flags/gb-1674fbf6dc097793ed59ab21f9925986.gif)
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.
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Great tech innovators: Hossein Yassaie
25.05.2015 - Imagination Technologies - Pure - United Kingdom![United Kingdom United Kingdom](/assets/flags/gb-1674fbf6dc097793ed59ab21f9925986.gif)
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.
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