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Turn up the festive feel good with Heart Xmas! Listen To Heart Xmas on DAB radio.

In a conference stream dedicated solely to radio, three presentations in this year’s SET Brazil event focused on DAB+. WorldDAB President Patrick Hannon and WorldDAB Technical Committee member Les Sabel featured amongst the presenters.

WorldDAB and the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) presented a technical webinar series this week, attracting over 100 broadcasters, network operators, regulators and other radio stakeholders. The series, which extended for three days, presented a panel of experts who explained the features and opportunities that DAB+ offers broadcasters in the Asia-Pacific region.

A map highlighting the different radio DAB+ stations throughout Germany is available on dabplus.de. The map includes detailed information for all of Germany's federal states.

France's National Confederation of Associative Radios (CNRA) has asked the French media regulator CSA to evaluate whether 'half-scale' DAB+ services could potentially be launched in France. The proposal is to match the resources of associative radios with an adequate territory coverage and a half size multiplex.

A third DAB+ network has gone on air in Slovenia, and is the second digital radio network with national coverage. The new R2 multiplex will include regional and local radio broadcasts and, like the other two, is managed by RTV Slovenija.

Glovane is a company specialised in highly integrated low power digital radio receiver chips and modules for DAB. Glovane has partnered with global supply network and OEM audio manufacturers and is now becoming a global leader in semiconductors. Since 2019, Glovane’s DAB chip and module have been applied to the BT speaker of Harman’s JBL Products and other brand products.

DAB+ continues to develop in Slovenia, with public broadcaster RTV Slovenija having just launched a third DAB+ multiplex - the country's second national multiplex.

Norwegian communications regulator Nkom has announced the start of the auction for DAB frequencies in the Sogn region on 16 October. Registration documents must be submitted by 6 November with the bidding deadline on 13 November. Results will be announced on 18 November.

Paneda has signed a contract with Telenor Norge AS, BMS (Broadcast and Media Services) for the national commercial DAB multiplexer system in Norway, which is now in full operation. This national multiplex is one of the world’s largest DAB networks with a total number of more than 220 transmitters which operates in SFN (Single Frequency Network) nationwide.