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At this year's International Consumer Electronics Fair (IFA) in Berlin Digital Radio is a major issue. Under digitalradio.de you can find an IFA blog where everything worth knowing about digital radio product news, special exhibition highlights and the main events will be made exclusively available.

Toyota has made digital radio a standard feature in three of its locally built cars and the commercial broadcasters are giving five away in a promotion to mark three years of permanent digital broadcasts - one in each of the five mainland state capitals.

At IFA 2012 a "Digital Radio 2012/2013" event will be held. It will be held in the IFA Red Lounge and is aimed mainly at current and future development of the equipment market and the expectations of retailers will also be discussed. Among them a new repeater solution is presented, which should solve the problem of receiving digital radio in the electronics stores.

Garmin today announced they will be launching in Europe a range of Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) that rely on digital radio broadcast (DAB) to receive traffic updates.

Kuwait has ordered two large systems covering 24 redundant DAB+ services hosted by two separate multiplexing and data broadcasting systems. In Australia the Factum main installation is the prestigious contract for the continental roll out of CRA and CBAA.

Contrary to the suggestion that the audience for ABC Local Radio is rusted on to the AM band, the largest audiences by far for ABC digital radio services are listening to Local Radio on DAB+.

With over 800,000 sets already sold, and around a million listeners a week, digital radio has surpassed most people’s expectations. By any measure it already represents a significant chunk of listeners and growing fast.

I would like to comment on the ill-informed piece Friday's Crikey entitled Digital radio already yesterday's news as net rules the waves.

Just as the broadcasting industry in Australia celebrates its third anniversary of DAB broadcasts, Southern Cross Austereo has launched a new digital radio station called Stardust.

The latest German digital radio reception information has been published just in time for IFA (Berlin ) at digitalradio.de.