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The winners of the 25th annual Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRAs) were announced tonight with Southern Cross Austereo’s Buddha Radio winning the award for Best Digital Radio Format, Long Term. The Southern Cross Austereo station, which broadcasts on DAB+ in all five metropolitan markets, plays a chill-out music format.

BBC World Service has signed an agreement for broadcast of BBC World Service English programming on World Radio Switzerland (WRS) channel in Geneva and Lausanne on DAB+ and streaming on WRS website.

Australian audio company GUNN Audio has launched its next generation iWall sound tower. The GUNN iWall DAB is an all-in-one speaker tower featuring gorgeous wood grain and piano gloss finishes.

The new Norwegian station NRK P1+ went on the air on Oct. 2, and it's caused a run on DAB radios in at least a couple of stores, because the station is available only via DAB+.

The media authority for Bavaria BLM has granted licences for new stations in Bavaria. The licenses are valid until 30 April 2015.

Australian audio company GUNN Audio has launched its next generation iWall sound tower. The GUNN iWall DAB has loads of new features including: Digital radio All new speaker and amplifier design delivering 2.5 times the power (120 watts RMS) USB charging point A stylish new interface and remote control

Inside you'll find DAB, DAB+, FM with RDS and internet radio, DLNA and WLAN technology for wireless audio playback from external computers and music servers, Bluetooth for streaming from smartphones and Spotify Connect, which gives you access to over 20 million tracks from the Spotify library if you have a premium account.

It’s not often one hears about the innards of electronic equipment, especially sales numbers, but chip developer and maker Frontier Silicon feels it has something to sing about concerning its Chorus 3. The five-year-old DAB/DAB+ system-on-chip processor for digital radio reception and Internet stream decoding has racked up 10 million units sold

The West Switzerland receives a second platform for the digital broadcasting of radio programs. OFCOM Romandie Médias SA on February 12, 2013 granted a radio license to operate a DAB + station network. The launch of the new platform for 18 radio programs will be made no later than the end of June 2014.

The Peugeot 308 now comes with DAB as standard.