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Forever FM, the fictional station that featured in Peter Kay's Car Share, is to become an actual broadcast station. It will air on DAB in Manchester and will also be available to stream online across the rest of the country.

From mid-May candidate channels will be able to submit their applications to participate in the new radio landscape in Belgium. The Minister of Media, Sven Gatz is behind the plans, which have now been approved, to reform Flemish radio by moving broadcasting from FM analogue to DAB+ digital radio.

Forever FM. the fictitious radio station on Peter Kay's BBC1 series Car Share, has been launched for real by broadcaster Steve Penk. The station won't broadcast any news - just 'uplifting singalong music' 24 hours a day.

The Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, Henk Kamp, has launched an internet consultation in response to the intention under article 3.10 of the Telecommunications Act to auction up regional DAB+ capability in layer 4. There are frequencies available in the three top regional allotments: eight licenses for Northwestern channel 9D, fourteen for Southwest channel 9D, and nine available for South channel 7A.  As existing permits are not going to be extended, this is an opportunity for newcomers to get a license to broadcast on DAB+ digital radio. 

Sponsored by the City of Milan, from 21 until 23 April 2017, at the Pavilion UniCredit in Milan, RadioCity brings together industry professionals from around the world for three days of information and meetings, music and entertainment all about radio.

Fictitious radio station Forever FM – as heard on BBC 1's Car Share – has been turned into a real thing and put on the small-scale DAB multiplex in Manchester. Forever FM says it will not broadcast any news, and will just play uplifting singalong music 24-hours a day.

The launch of new digital radio transmitters in Cornwall was celebrated at a special ‘switch on’ event today. The expansion of coverage means many listeners can now receive six further radio stations on DAB digital radio for the first time.

The European Broadcasting Union's Media Intelligence Service's Digital Radio Report 2017 offers an overview of digital radio rollout across Europe. The annual update highlights which European countries are leading the way in the transition to digital radio, which are embracing it, countries that recently launched digital radios services and those currently without a market for digital radio.

The expansion of coverage means that many listeners in Cornwall can now receive six further stations – BBC Radio Cornwall, Heart South West, Pirate FM, My Music Radio, Capital and Gold – on DAB digital radio for the first time.

Ten new DAB transmitters are launching across Cornwall, which will mean that over 300,000 more people can pick up Pirate FM on DAB digital radio.