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Nearly 95 years after the debut of regular radio broadcasts in Germany on 29 October, 1923 through a medium wave transmitter in Berlin, various present-day radio industry specialists gathered in Berlin to attend the WorldDAB General Assembly. More than 200 delegates from all over the world discussed the future of DAB+ as well as multiplatform digital radio.

DAB+ is an indispensable part of digital radio listening and is also growing together with new technological achievements such as voice control - those were key messages from the first day at WorldDAB General Assembly 2018 in Berlin.

Radioplayer Worldwide has unveiled the “Reference Radio” at the WorldDAB General Assembly in Berlin — a prototype touchscreen radio for dashboards, designed to show how smart ‘hybrid’ technology can transform in-car listening.

Radioplayer has unveiled the Reference Radio, a prototype touchscreen radio for dashboards, designed to show how smart ‘hybrid’ technology can transform in-car listening.

The Reference Radio “hybrid” prototype is multiplatform, able to play DAB digital radio, FM, and internet radio streams, and shows a single list of stations across all those platforms.

It’s the latest move in a series of ambitious partnership projects, aimed at helping car companies and broadcasters deliver a better user-experience in the vehicles of the future, Radioplayer has unveiled the Reference Radio, a prototype touchscreen radio for dashboards, designed to show how smart ‘hybrid’ technology can transform in-car listening.

The British commercial-public broadcaster partnership Radioplayer has unveiled a prototype touchscreen radio for dashboards, designed to show how smart ‘hybrid’ technology can transform in-car listening. Radioplayer describes Reference Radio as “the latest move in a series of ambitious partnership projects, aimed at helping car companies and broadcasters deliver a better user-experience in the vehicles of the future.”

Radioplayer has unveiled the Reference Radio, a prototype touchscreen radio for dashboards, designed to show how smart ‘hybrid’ technology can transform in-car listening.

Radioplayer has unveiled the Reference Radio, a prototype touchscreen radio for dashboards, designed to show how smart ‘hybrid’ technology can transform in-car listening. The new technology was demonstrated at the WorldDAB General Assembly in Berlin, and unlike most modern car radios, the Reference Radio shows a single list of stations across all those platforms. There’s no need to select different sources like DAB, FM, or Internet first - the driver just taps a station logo to play it, and the system does the rest.

RadioApp, the industry’s streaming radio platform, will now be used to provide Australian commercial and public radio content into the DTS Connected Radio platform.