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More and more Dutch people are listening to DAB+ radio. Currently, about two million people listen to DAB+ in the Netherlands, a figure that has tripled since 2015.

More than 719,000 DAB+ radios have already been sold in the Netherlands. This was announced during Digital Radio Day. Meanwhile, 13% of Dutch population say they listen to radio via DAB+. During the last 12 months, 154,000 DAB+ radios for cars have been sold including cars delivered with DAB+ as standard.

The facelift was the usual stuff, with interior and exterior updates and new standard equipment across the range including Air Con and DAB.

The updated system has a seven-inch colour touchscreen for easy navigation, with features including RDS with Traffic Programme, Eco Routing and DAB digital radio.

Digital Radio UK is taking its ‘Doing the DAB’ event to Northern Ireland, following the success of sessions across England and Scotland. Doing the DAB: Belfast will be part of the Belfast Media Festival on 17th November, with speakers confirmed so far including people from the BBC and commercial radio operators in Northern Ireland.

Speakers including Culture Minister Mette Bock, Teracom Boss, Martin Løbel and BBC's Steve Titherington, spoke at a press conference on the expansion of DAB+ across Denmark. DAB+ provides listeners with radio that is not dependant on IP or dictated by algorithms with more choice compared to standard FM. Watch the videos.

The UK “Minister for Digital”, Matt Hancock, delivered a video address in last week’s “Drive to Digital” conference in London. Hancock’s half-hour included a plea to radio receiver manufacturers to make their sets “digital by default” - a rather political phrase by which he meant that analogue AM/FM radios should be removed from the shelves.

On October 1, Denmark moved from DAB to DAB+, launching 12 additional radio channels including services from BBC, Extra Bladet and Bauer Media.

The show contains the latest radio news of the digital radio switchover in Norway from Ole Jørgen Torvmark and a roundup of the Drive To Digital conference from Ford Ennals.

The week is Digital Radio Week at Digital Radio NL, the collaboration of public and commercial radio stations, for the promotion of digital radio in the Netherlands. Every year, the initiative is held, which allows listeners to win DAB+ radio receivers.