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National digital radio on-air in Germany
08.08.2011 - Germany[London] Germany, which is Europe‟s biggest radio market, is now broadcasting digital radio in all...
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Regular DAB has started in city Brno
08.08.2011 - Czechia[Příbram] The digital radio signal was spread to city Brno just four months after successful start...
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National DAB+ Launches in Germany
05.08.2011 - Frontier Smart Technologies WorldDAB Member - Germanyrontier Silicon, the market leading supplier of digital radio and connected audio technology, today welcomed the switch-on of the new national DAB/DAB+ network in Germany. Twenty-seven transmitters covering 40 million consumers were switched on by Media Broadcast, and listeners across the country are now presented with the opportunity to listen to an array of exciting new radio services all delivered with crystal clear digital technology.
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Ford Focuses on Digital In Car Entertainment
04.08.2011 - United KingdomAnother system currently provided by Ford is Digital Audio Broadcasting radio, in the form of DAB, DAB and DMB, with 150000 DAB equipped Fords already on the roads across Europe. Starting in July 2011, coverage will expand as more more countries ...
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Continued digital growth for UK DAB
04.08.2011 - United Kingdom
The share of all radio listening to DAB is now at 17.2%, up from 16.7% quarter on quarter and from 15.8% in Q2 2010. Listening to DAB accounts for 68.2% of digital listening (excluding digital unspecified).
DAB for new VW Beetle
04.08.2011 - United KingdomTwelve years after the current Beetle entered the market and 73 after the original, the new model is set to be released next year and likely to include DAB as standard.
Free fitting on an in-car digital radio!
04.08.2011 - United KingdomRadio Today has teamed up with Digital Radio UK and Halfords to offer free digital radio fittings August when you buy an in-car digital radio head unit.
Canberra & Darwin digital radio trials extended
04.08.2011 - Commercial Radio & Audio WorldDAB Member - AustraliaCommercial Radio Australia (CRA) welcomed today's announcement by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) that the DAB+ digital radio trial licences in Canberra and Darwin have been extended for a further 12 months.
PURE launches Move 2500
03.08.2011 - Pure - United KingdomLondon, UK, 3rd August 2011: PURE, the world-leading radio maker, presents Move 2500, a stylish pocket digital and FM radio that’s ideal for listening on the move, whether in the UK or abroad.
Lies, statistics, and anti-DAB campaigners
02.08.2011 - United KingdomIn a depressingly familiar blog posting somewhere on the internet (it’s now been removed), a content producer for a bunch of radio stations shows how easy it is for people – even radio people – to get confused with new Ofcom research about the take-up of digital radio. He posts (in italics)…