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Included in the latest edition is an interview with Uwe Ludwig (Digital Radio Club Central Germany) about successful digital radio marketing.

WSFM's breakfast duo will today introduce a new digital radio station called WS4KIDS in Australia.

The BMW Z4 sDrive 18i now comes with DAB as standard.

In another win for radio Ford Australia now includes DAB+ in the new Kuga, joining nine other vehicle manufactures (Land Rover, Mercedes, Toyota, Lexus, BMW, Audi, Hino, Jaguar and Isuzu Trucks), including DAB+ in selected Australian vehicles.

About 94,000 DAB digital radio devices were sold in the period, up from about 88,000 in the same quarter last year, bringing the total number sold since the technology's 2009 launch to 1.25 million..

Digital radio sales and listening figures recorded another significant rise with 94,024 DAB+ digital radio devices sold in the first quarter of 2013, bringing the total number sold since the 2009 launch to 1,250,179, in addition listening figures from Survey 2, 2013 show 12.3% of people are now listening via a DAB+ device each week.

The radio station Beat Hell will from 1 May also be heard in Saxony-Anhalt on DAB +.

NAB Lab's Radio TechCheck said, “This represents the industry's first single-die antenna-input-to-audio-output digital radio IC developed for the global portable and consumer electronics markets.”

The development strategy of digital radio supporters in Italy differs from the usual plan. Rather than an initial focus on urban centers followed by moving cautiously into less densely populated areas, the Italian test model focuses on coverage in rural areas.

The Silicon Labs announcement revealed the new monolithic Si468x receiver I.C.s use software-defined-radio technology to provide an antenna input-to-audio output digital radio system capable of receiving FM, HD Radio, and DAB/DAB broadcasts.