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The growth of digital radio listening is one of the most significant stories here for the planning and buying teams at MediaCom North... Despite the intense disruption from new forms of digital advertising, radio remains a vibrant and exciting option for many clients.

Love 80s Radio Manchester and Love 80s Radio Liverpool will broadcast via DAB+ on Manchester and Liverpool multiplexes respectively, with the official launch of both at Rewind North in Cheshire.

The Norwegian radio group NEA Radio will soon start DAB transmissions using its own transmitter network in two different regions. Paneda has been selected as provider of the complete multiplexer solution containing multiplexers, audio encoders and the meta data content system Rapid from All In Media.

The Turbo Edition gets Bluetooth connectivity, a DAB digital radio, cruise control and speed limiter and a leather-wrapped steering wheel.

In preparation for the introduction of an EMF (Emergency Warning Functionality) channel in Bavaria, Bayern Digital Radio GmbH is planning an information channel on DAB+.

The 750Li comes quipped with a digital TV tuner and digital radio to cover off all the entertainment bases.

Frontier Silicon’s Venus Colour reference platform has become the first DAB digital radio to receive Digital Radio UK’s new European-ready Digital Tick. The new European specification requires receivers to display a full range of Latin-based scripts and receive signals across 38 Band III channels (previously performance was only tested against the 12 channels used in the UK).

From the 1st September, Schwarzwald Radio will be available throughout Germany via DAB+

The German radio industry is currently working on a two-step process on the introduction of DAB+, with the first step being an expansion phase, then followed by migration. During the expansion phase, FM and DAB+ will broadcast simultaneously until a concrete proposal for the eventual shutdown of FM can be put into place.

A pop-up digital radio station will launch in September in the run up to BBC Radio Cymru's 40th birthday. Radio Cymru Mwy is due to run for 15 weeks from 19 September and broadcast every weekday morning.