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Belgian broadcaster Medialaan has announced an agreement to expand distribution of its radio stations Qmusic and Joe to the DAB+ network operated by Norkring. The contract runs until 2024 and covers the regions Flanders and Brussels.

Silicon Labs has announced a family of car radio receiver chips with a common software API, claiming designers can share R&D effort across multiple product lines, from low-cost, single-tuner AM/FM radios to high-performance systems with multiple tuners and antennas.

The Polish association of importers and manufacturers of electrical appliances and electronics, ZIPSEE Digital Poland, has sent a letter to Minister of Digitisation Anna Strezynska, requesting a regulation stating the minimum technical requirements for digital radio receivers...

Equipped with two antennas: one for radio reception via FM and DAB+ and the other for WLAN. Now you only have to decide which source you want to listen to: FM, DAB+, Internet radio, Spotify Connect, USB or from smartphone via Bluetooth.

Silicon Labs' new portfolio of Global Eagle and Dual Eagle AM/FM receivers and digital radio tuners and Digital Falcon coprocessors enables automakers and Tier 1 suppliers to address all market segments, cost and performance levels, and digital radio standards while meeting rigorous automotive quality standards.

A new station has appeared on the Somerset commercial multiplex. The station is a joint venture with 100% Media group, who license the 100% brand, and it will be sold to airtime clients alongside its 100% Dragon Hits station in The Westcountry and South Wales overspill area.

The Slots and Cultural Agency has launched an information campaign to promote listening to digital radio and inform about the transition to DAB + in Denmark. The campaign goes under the slogan "More radio with digital radio" and is a detailed information campaign.

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Medialaan has chosen Norkring Belgium as a partner to take care of its DAB + broadcasts in Flanders and Brussels until 2024. From September 2017, Medialaan, Qmusic and Joe radio stations will be available on Norkring's current DAB + network.

After the successful launch of the DAB+ marketing campaign "As clear as if I were there" earlier in the summer, the ARD, together with Deutschlandradio and other partners, will launch a second nationwide campaign on 9 August 2017. In the run-up to the International Radio Exhibition in Berlin in September, the ARD and its partners will intensify their efforts to promote DAB+.