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Slovenia's Agency for Post and Electronic Communications has invited all interested parties, especially radio stations, to participate in the public consultation on options for developing terrestrial digital radio. In Slovenia, T-DAB has so far only been allocated for radio frequencies from the Krvavec transmitter on block 12B, used by public broadcaster RTV Slovenija to air its radio stations RA SLO 1, RA SLO 2, RA SLO 3 and Radio Si. The license runs until 12 November.

INFOSAT, an industry magazine reported Media Broadcast will further expand its DAB+ nationwide offering which will begin in Hesse from the 13 June.

The Swiss manufacturer Geneva Lab has announced that the Wireless Model S DAB + is immediately available in Germany and Austria.

Deutschlandradio director Willi Steul sees it as possible to launch a national children's radio station. It could be made possible through cooperation with ARD and the children's channel Kika.

The firm Audioblock now offers radios with DAB+ radio.

The Ford Tourneo Custom 2.2 TDCi now comes with DAB.

The new Range Rover Sport now comes with DAB.

The BMW M135i comes with DAB as standard.

The UK Government is hailing a recent digital radio test as a success, saying listeners who are in a good coverage area love digital radio.

The report 'GO Digital Trial: Measuring the impact of radio switchover on consumers is now available. Ipsos MORI was commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to conduct a digital radio switchover pilot, to document and explore the conversion experience of households from an analogue to digital-only radio environment.