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DAB+ digital radio has experienced significant success in the French-speaking part of Belgium since its official launch in November 2019. According to maRadio.be, two thirds of listeners are now familiar with DAB+, while the number of listeners equipped with DAB+ receivers more than doubled in one year. What’s more, over a quarter of the people surveyed highlighted plans to purchase a DAB+ receiver at home or in the car, and 93% of respondents claimed to be satisfied with their experience with DAB+.

Radio listeners in Nordheide, Lower Saxony are now able to benefit from DAB+ digital radio following the launch of atransmitter in Rosengarten. The transmitter will serve the regions between Stelle, Hanstedt, Schneverdingen, Heeslingen and Neu Wulmstorf.

In Switzerland, digital radio use increased by 19 percentage points in four years - from 49% in autumn 2015 to 68% in autumn 2019. DAB+ was also the most widely used radio distribution channel, increasing by 14 percentage points since autumn 2015 and claiming 37% of all listening.

In Switzerland, digital radio use increased by 19 percentage points in four years - from 49% in autumn 2015 to 68% in autumn 2019. DAB+ was also the most widely used radio distribution channel, increasing by 14 percentage points since autumn 2015 and claiming 37% of all listening.

February 13 marks World Radio Day, and the day the United Nations Radio was created and launched. Radio makes an important contribution to democracy, while free radio reception ensures that large parts of the world population have access to information. Just under three quarters of a century later, radio continues to develop and reinvent itself, with DAB+ ensuring it is as strong as ever.

Italian regulator AGCOM and national network operators DAB Italia, Eurodab and RAI have published a new call for tenders for up to 14 new national DAB+ digital radio channels.

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.