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Go Digital summer campaign launches
27.06.2012 - United Kingdom United Kingdom
That's the message of the summer digital radio communications campaign that is being launched on Saturday 30 June by both BBC and commercial radio.

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Hong Kong Expands DAB Network
26.06.2012 - Hong Kong Hong Kong
DAB services now covers approximately 70 percent of the island.

(Radio World) Read more


Radiofuturologist predicts future of radio
25.06.2012 - Germany Germany
DAB+ will prevail in Germany, much faster than in Great Britain, the Radiofuturologist James Cridland said during his keynote at 24th Medienforum.

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Global acquires Guardian radio network
25.06.2012 - Global WorldDAB Member - United Kingdom United Kingdom
Real Radio is made up of five regional stations based in Scotland, the North East, Yorkshire, the North West and Wales, while Smooth Radio operates both nationally via DAB and through six FM stations operating in London, Glasgow, the North West, North East, the West and East Midlands.

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Les Echos revealed that groups and NRJ NextradioTV sent an official letter to the CSA to signify that they waive their frequencies on the digital terrestrial radio on the cities of Paris, Marseille and Nice.
24.06.2012 - France France
As "coincidence", these two groups did not obtain additional frequencies on the RNT in spectrum allocation in 2009. Such a withdrawal could be followed by Lagardère and RTL, the other two major groups opposed to terrestrial digital radio. So good or good news? The RNT can it be launched without the major networks? Of course! And it is even, we believe, a very good thing because it will free up a couple of places for other radios.

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Quantek Announced Its Mass Shipments of Q8 DAB Modules and ...
22.06.2012 - Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei
"We see a continuing expansion of DAB/DAB+/DMB radio in the global market. Quantek commits and continues to develop and support technologies, which differentiate and enhance digital broadcasting applications," said Quantek VP Marketing and Sales, Jeff Lin.

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Planet radio for Hesse
22.06.2012 - Bayern Digital Radio GmbH - Germany Germany
[Bad Vilbel] Seit Mitte Juni ist das Angebot an Digitalradio-Programmen in Hessen um eine Station...

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Digitalradio at AngaCable 2012
22.06.2012 - Bayern Digital Radio GmbH - Germany Germany
A report from AngaCable 2012 saw a review of the launch of the new DAB + receiver from Technisat and explanatory information from the network operator Media Broadcast on Digital Radio which is now available on Youtube

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BBC's Radio 5 Performs for Olympics
21.06.2012 - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) WorldDAB Member - United Kingdom United Kingdom
As part of what it is calling the first “digital Olympics,” the BBC will be providing extensive coverage of the London Olympic Games on BBC Radio 5

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Launch of DAB transmission network
20.06.2012 - Hong Kong Hong Kong
Hong Kong's digital audio broadcasting (DAB) service is set to be further enhanced to enable more listeners to enjoy a brand new listening experience, with the transmission network coming into full operation.

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