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DAB listening hours have reached a record 246 million, up 18 percent year on year, representing two thirds of all digital listening hours.

MG 3 now include DAB as standard in all models bar the entry-level range.

The Volkswagen Tiguan Match now features additional equipment which includes navigation, park sensors, iPhone connectivity and DAB.

A whole new tier of small-scale radio stations could be launched on DAB digital radio, new research from Ofcom suggests.

Ofcom has today published a research paper investigating the potential of small-scale Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) transmissions using new lower-cost software defined radio technologies.

Pure has introduced the Evoke F4, an FM/DAB/Internet radio with integrated Bluetooth.

Poland’s public radio broadcaster Polskie Radio will join the digital movement October 1st, said president Andrzej Siezieniewski. Ten national channels and two local channels will be available on DAB+ multiplexes in Warsaw and Katowice. “Today the cost of (receivers) in Western Europe is about €80 to €100,” he said. “As the digitization process unfolds, in three or four years, these prices should be around PLN 100 (about €25).”

DAB represents 24 percent of all radio listening hours, reaching 18.4 million U.K. adults weekly. DAB listening hours have reached 246 million, and 45.7 percent of the population now has a DAB digital radio.

Listeners will be able to receive BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru as well as some commercial stations. At the end of August, new digital transmitters are expected to add a further 150,000 households in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire.

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