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Chairman of the National Council of Radio and Television Jan Dworak is in no doubt that the future of radio in Poland will be digital saying 'There is no other way. Radio can not remain an analog island in a digital world '. The National Council of Radio and TV stations want to get involved in the digitization of radio with the Polish government.

The issues of further development of digital terrestrial television and the beginning of the digitization of broadcasting dominate discussions at the conference "The future of media in Poland", which began in Poznan. The second day of the conference will be devoted to digital radio, and will be guided by the slogan "Digital radio - more than radio."

2wcom Systems of Flensburg, Germany, will launch four products for IP radio, audio contribution via satellite and IP, and DAB/DAB+ applications.

The French-speaking part of Switzerland will have commercial radio via DAB+ in 2014 with radio stations to broadcast via the second DAB network.

The R&S THV9 and R&S TMV9 transmitter families cover much more than ISDB-TB and ATSC. They also support DAB, DAB+, T-DMB, DVB-T/DVB-H, DVB-T2, DTMB and analog TV standards.

Research on comparing the costs of supply of radio transmission in Bavaria through DAB+ or LTE is now available. The analysis was commissioned by Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien (BLM) and Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR).

German commercial broadcaster Klassik Radio AG has signed up for the EBU Smart Radio initiative. The campaign, which promotes the integration of analogue and digital broadcast chips in every mobile device, has won broad European support over the past year.

Kia announced this week that DAB will be offered as standard on their Kia Soul model.

James Cridland laid out the radio landscape in the U.K., where DAB is slowly growing and listening online and listening through digital TV are roughly equal and trailing far behind DAB.

Company car drivers now have a choice of 19 variants with standard equipment which includes 'Amundsen' touchscreen satellite navigation system with DAB radio, Bluetooth, dual zone air conditioning and cruise control.