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French stations take CSA to court over digital radio
29.02.2012 - France France
French TV and radio broadcasters' association Sirti has taken legal action against media regulator CSA's refusal to licence terrestrial digital ra dio stations in Paris, Marseille and Nice. Sirti, which took the CSA to administrative court, ...

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Loudness Normalization for Norway DAB
29.02.2012 - Norway Norway
They said that the main reason for this initial choice of -15 LUFS was to match the levels between DAB, FM and Internet radio in multiplatform receivers. And, with Norway looking at a complete shutdown of the FM network in 2017 (or 2019 at the latest), ...

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Frontier Silicon announces Venice 8.1 module for sub €100 colour touch screen ...
28.02.2012 - Frontier Smart Technologies WorldDAB Member - United Kingdom United Kingdom
This module gives OEMs and ODMs the opportunity to bring advanced digital radios and dockers to the market, which are able to display slideshow images broadcast over DAB or DAB providing a colourful and informative backdrop to any radio programme.

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ABC Radio more efficient: Dundas at Broadcasting Summit
28.02.2012 - Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) - Australia Australia
“In 1985 we had two national radio networks, local capital city stations and about 30 regional stations. In 2012 ABC Radio has 4 national networks, the same number of capital city stations and over 50 regional stations, plus digital radio stations and ...

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Samsung, IDAG present Galaxy WiFi 5.0
28.02.2012 - Spain Spain
Both companies see consumers spending more and more time on mobile entertainment and news and believe the new services will widen the appeal of the phone among audiences. The radio and TV experience is based on DMB/DAB . Digital radio via DAB/DAB or ...

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Absolute joins Digital Radio UK board
27.02.2012 - United Kingdom United Kingdom
Absolute Radio has joined the three largest commercial radio operators and the BBC by taking a seat at the board of Digital Radio UK. The group, which has one of the three national analogue commercial radio licences, has launched six digital-only ...

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Digital radio nationwide on March 5 C
27.02.2012 - Bayern Digital Radio GmbH - Germany Germany
MEDIA BROADCAST, operator of the broadcasting network have implemented the nationwide use of channel 5C, which makes the reception of the new national digital radio services even better.

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Abertis Telecom launches its latest network infrastructure used to carry out demonstrations of DMB Mobile TV and DAB and DAB digital radio
27.02.2012 - Spain Spain
· The official mobile television network provider for the seventh year running, abertis telecom will deploy the network infrastructure used to carry out demonstrations of DMB Mobile TV and DAB and DAB digital radio. · The new features to be launched ...

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Hackers enter EBU digital radio week 2012
24.02.2012 - European Broadcasting Union (EBU) WorldDAB Member - Switzerland Switzerland
The Digital Radio Summit side saw more than 107 participants gather despite a late program announcement. After a long absence of representation in the summit program, we can note the return from France with the overview on the multiplatform strategy from Radio France and the local/community radios coming into play with DAB+.

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SMMT boss: Digital radio key to remarketing's future
23.02.2012 - United Kingdom United Kingdom
By Jack Carfrae SMMT chief executive Paul Everitt told delegates at this month's VRA Conference that the adoption of DAB digital radios in cars will have a significant effect on the remarketing arena. Everitt, speaking at the event held at Silverstone, ...

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