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Listeners in Wolverhampton and Shropshire will soon be able to listen to new stations because of the expansion of the DAB system in the UK. Four new DAB mux transmitters have been brought online over the past 18 months and a final transmitter will launch in Market Drayton in the coming weeks.

"We know that DAB listening is increasing across the board, and this trend has been reflected in our own recent listener surveys. Our audience have told us that they want to hear our main offering FBi 94.5fm on DAB," says Managing Director, Clare Holland.

The Private Members' Small-Scale DAB Bill received Royal Assent to pass into law as an Act of Parliament on April 27, thereby providing the means for a huge expansion of local and community stations on DAB, marking an historic day for UK radio.

The new D-M41DAB has Bluetooth connectivity as well as "enhanced sound" from its CD, DAB/DAB+, FM and digital sources.

The " Digitisation Concept 2017 ", which came into force on 1 May 2017, states that the media authority KommAustria will continue to make significant contributions to the improved use of radio frequencies and the associated conversion of existing television channels in favor of mobile radio applications. A further activity of the agency remains digital radio in the DAB+ standard.

Steve Penk has launched a crowdfunding page seeking £30,000 to pay for Eternity Radio to be created, and made available via the DAB minimux in Manchester and online.

The second nationwide DAB+ multiplex could be launched later this year in Germany. Several platform providers have now applied to operate the second nationwide DAB+ multiplex, and the Landesmedienanstalten has decided to appoint the platform operator by June 2017 at the latest.

Over 100 radio industry professionals attended the Doing the DAB: Birmingham event on Wednesday night to hear about the developments in digital radio in the city. Capacity for DAB stations in Birmingham is now fully utilised, and there are calls for Ofcom to create a second local DAB multiplex for the city.

For the second time since the launch of DAB digital radio broadcasts at the end of 2009, audience numbers for all DAB only stations have been released one week after the official metropolitan GfK radio ratings.

The government will allocate new funding of $6.1 million over two years for the community radio sector to support digital radio services and one-off spectrum reorganisation costs for analog radio services. "We recognise it is important that we make funding provision to ensure that this important work that community radio does can be supported and that the transition to digital radio can be supported," said Communications Minister Mitch Fifield, announcing additional funding for community digital radio.