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Since 1 October last year, Polish Radio channels (Radios One, Two, Three and Four) as well as Polish Radio External Service are available in DAB+. To celebrate Polish Radio reaching over 5000 followers on Facebook a competition has been launched to think up a slogan for the new DAB+ English language broadcasts and win Polish Radio goodies

Speakers from SNRL (National Union of Free Radios) will be participating in three sessions during Salon de la Radio during which delegates will gain insight into the roll out of digital radio in France.

While some smartphones today offer the possibility to listen to the radio via mobile, Australian commercial radio stations are now trying to encourage mobile phone companies to install DAB+ digital chips. In exchange for the eventual integration of this chip, Commercial Radio Australia Ltd have agreed to engage on all commercial stations, an advertising campaign several million dollars to promote digital radio on the Samsung Galaxy.

A DAB+ test is scheduled for Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa, according to WorldDMB News. After coverage verification tests, the two transmitters will operate as a single frequency network in VHF band III, on channel 13F at 239.2MHz.

It's just been announced that LBC is going to go national on February 11th. We will be transmitting on the National Digital One DAB platform meaning that for the first time all our programmes can be heard all over the country.

View more information about the DAB+ automotive workshop to be held on 13 May in Zurich, Switzerland.

Suzuki SX4 S-Cross with DAB as standard.

The Geneva Motor Show, which runs 6-16 March, will feature DAB+ radio broadcasts thanks to a joint effort by three partners at the show, as part of efforts to push the technology in cars.

The Ford Fiesta ST includes DAB as standard.

FM radio is listed as number one by techradar in their list of 10 products destined for the scrapheap. According to their predictions FM will soon be the preserve of angry talk radio phone-ins and ultra-local Fab FM stations: in 2013 more people in the UK listened to DAB stations than analogue ones. The digital radio switchover still doesn't have a date but coverage is improving, car and van firms are fitting DAB radios as standard and the cost of standalone DAB radios has plummeted. That's great news for anyone who likes FM but wishes it sounded worse and was harder to receive.