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Tim Davie, BBC director of audio and music said: "We should be selling radios with DAB and FM [reception] so that they are future-proof", speaking at a digital radio conference in London.

Pure 39's latest DAB radio comes with a little something extra: Pure Stream, so you can wirelessly play music from your smartphone. Launching alongside Pure Stream is the Pure Sensia 200D Connect, a touchscreen DAB radio with wireless pretensions.

The chipset can receive and decode up to four channels in parallel, two for FM phase diversity and two for terrestrial digital broadcasting (e.g. DAB). With this feature, the car radio can receive audio content from one channel, while pulling real-time traffic and ...

Dave Gordon, BBC Sport's head of major events, told the Radio Times: "Don't forget, NBC is flying 2700 over from the USA. So we're pretty lean and mean. "I look on it .... 'Dark Knight Rises':

The Bavarian Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting (BLM) has conducted in cooperation with Bavarian and national DAB radio operators in the analysis of Bavaria in 2012, a detailed study on the use of digital radio programs in Bavaria.

Just six weeks before the start of the International Radio Exhibition the public interest in digital radio continues to grow. Nearly 500 journalists have obtained information on press events in Hamburg, Munich and Berlin about the main topics of the upcoming IFA. The latest devices are now shown at the IFA itself to a wide audience.

An MSc student at EPFL Lausanne has developed a method of enabling Single Frequency Network (SFN) transmission using the free/open mmbTools DAB+ software-defined radio transmission set from the Communications Research Center Canada (CRC).

Continental is replacing conventional receiver technologies in car radios. Digital technology with powerful software creates new entertainment possibilities in the Continental Global Software Radio, and lowers costs thanks to streamlined hardware.

BBC's radio chief, Tim Davie, stated last week that all radio manufacturers should produce radios with FM and digital receivers. “I don't think switchover is about forcing people to do what they do not want to do.

The UK government is due to make next year as to whether to set a date for a full adoption of digital radio. Currently about 29 per cent of all listening is through a mix of DAB, on-line or digital TV access.