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Radio digitised, but it does not mean the end of your old radio. Learn how you can upgrade your radio or ensure that it is recycled with this new animation.

At the ITS World Congress in Bordeaux, Garmin was demonstrating an updated version of its real-time traffic service. The new service - to be available to their DAB (Digital Radio) connected PNDs - is coming via a new map release distributed this month.

As the French regulator (CSA) prepares to launch DAB+ in 20 cities, founder of Crooner Radio, Jean-Baptiste Tuzet, offers Minister for Culture, Fleur Pellerin, a DAB+ radio receiver by manufacturer VQ, and asks her to "look after radio", adding that "DAB+ guarantees free to air and diverse musical content".

Contrary to many dire predictions, radio continues to be a key medium for the dissemination of information, and can also be a key communications platform in times of emergencies. And with digital radio becoming more and more ubiquitous, the role radio continues to play is unlikely to be diminished, as The Sound Report finds out.

Just over a year ago a new radio station began broadcasting from rooms at Haxby Memorial Hall. And in double quick time Vale Radio has gone digital – with the grant of a DAB digital radio licence. Already 400k people listen to DAB in North Yorkshire.

If you want to get your hands on this limited edition Roberts RD60 DAB radio, you will have to head to the John Lewis website. It's an exclusive to the retailer and a very limited edition.

Leading automotive cockpit electronics supplier Visteon has teamed up with Mediamobile, the primary European broadcast traffic information service provider and editor of V-Traffic mobility solutions, to offer an industry-first solution that enables cars equipped with Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) radios to receive traffic updates through both digital radio and Internet services, simultaneously.

During the recent radio summit, as part of Austrian Media Days, Wolfgang Struber, Vice-Chairman of the association Digital Radio Austria, appealed to Austrian lawmakers to facilitate digital radio transmissions in that country.

In the Dension DAB family there are 4 members, each one is specialised to different cases supporting DAB, DAB+ and DMB-R standards. No matter if you would like to control your digital radio with a remote control like you do at home, prefer controlling everything on your smartphone or you simply just want to upgrade your existing Gateway: We have a solution for you!

Escape to Cornwall is a new station from Cornish commercial radio station operator Pirate FM, part of UKRD. The station is Pirate's second recent station launch: last month, it launched Pirate Oldies across the Cornwall and Plymouth DAB multiplexes.