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DIGITAL radio is finally starting to emerge as a viable choice.

Six companies have applied to the digital terrestrial transmission capacities for national dissemination or distribution of private broadcasting in digital technology (DAB) in North Rhine-Westphalia. In detail: Culture Shocker (rmc media + creative consult GmbH, Wuppertal), Domradio (education center for the Archdiocese of Cologne eV, Cologne), TopDABRadio (Pleximedia GmbH, Berlin), MEGA RADIO (MEGA Radio Bayern GmbH, Augsburg), absolute relax (The New wave radio mbH & Co.KG, Nuernberg), 3 programs, each with different music formats (REGIOCAST DIGITAL GmbH, Leipzig).

Raidió Rí-Rá ( rrr.ie), an Irish-language station which plays chart music for young people, also announced Monday that they would begin to broadcast live on the Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) platform in Dublin and Waterford this Sunday, in Cork and Limerick by the end of 2012 and nationally after that.

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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.

DAB services now covers approximately 70 percent of the island.

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

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.

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.