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Following the announcement by the National Communications Authority (NCA) about the commencement of trials for Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) in Accra and Kumasi, the Authority engaged with selected stakeholders involved in the upcoming trials. The stakeholders included the selected 16 FM stations as well as KNET, the partners for the project.

The Italian radio and television offer is enriched with a new leading player in sports communication. Radio TV Serie A with RDS is born - on air in DAB and IP mode, visible on digital terrestrial via extension of the Radio-TV channel, on the Lega Serie A website and APP, as well as on the RDS website and APP - starting on Saturday, August 19 to coincide with the start of the championship and created in partnership between the Lega Serie A and RDS 100% Grandi Successi.

The radio station OLDIE ANTENNE will be heard nationwide via DAB+ from 31 July 2023. Up to now, the station could be received partly nationally in eight federal states. "For Oldie Antenne, we have received a great deal of demand from listeners all over Germany in recent months: they very much want to be able to listen to their favourite station via DAB+ in their homes and cars," explains Felix Kovac, CEO of the Antenne Bayern Group, to which Oldie Antenne belongs.

In Bulgaria, a new DAB+ test ensemble has gone on the air. After the multiplex of Digital Audio Bulgaria with 16 programmes, which was on the air from 2017 to 2021 as part of an operational trial, the mobile radio provider Vivacom is now testing digital radio: since mid-July, the ensemble with 15 programmes has been broadcast in the Sofia area on channel 11B.

Since 12 July, the regional radio station Fusion FM has been covering Clermont-Ferrand and the surrounding area on DAB+. The Fusion FM team opted for DAB+, with digital broadcasting now operational for a few days. This digital broadcast will be complemented by an analogue FM broadcast on frequency 94.0, starting in September. A category B station, Fusion FM is historically based in Diou, a commune in the Allier region.

The Danish media group JFM, formerly known as Jysk Fynske Medier, has launched a radio station for the LGBT+ community on air. Alletiders Regnbue Hits - the greatest rainbow hits of all time - can be received via DAB+ in the greater Copenhagen area as well as in Greater and Western Jutland. The station features music with a connection to the LGBT+ community from the 1970s to today.

The DAB+ stations of the Swiss-German layer OCH 02 of SwissMediaCast will in future be available in Klosters, Davos, Arosa and Lenzerheide. The two transmitters in Davos and Klosters were switched on on 22 June 2023. The transmitter in Mon for coverage of Lenzerheide and Albula/Alvra will follow on 3 August 2023. The transmitter in Arosa is planned for 7 September 2023. This means that another important tourist region will be supplied with DAB+.

This summer, Radio Scoop is expanding its coverage even further. In addition to its historic FM frequencies in Clermont-Ferrand and Vichy (98.8 FM), listeners can now tune in to the station in Puy-de-Dôme, Allier and Cantal (Issoire, Thiers, Saint-Flour, Moulins and Clermont-Ferrand) on DAB+. In the coming weeks, the towns of Vichy and Montluçon will be covered by DAB+ technology. Since January 2020, all cars must be fitted with DAB+-compatible car radios.

From 21 July a new DAB+ radio transmitter from Hradec Králové - Stěžery on channel 5D with power of 1 kW is in operation. In the regions of Hradec Králové and Pardubice, the signal of the TELEKO DAB multiplex has been strengthened, which currently broadcasts the programmes of the regional stations Czech Radio Hradec Králové and Sever, Radio Proglas, Radio 7, ZUN and TOP 40.

Ghana's National Communications Authority (NCA) is pleased to announce the commencement of a Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) trial in Accra and Kumasi. 18 FM stations involved in this trial will be heard simultaneously in Accra and Kumasi. Ghana will deploy the latest version of DAB, that is DAB+. This trial positions Ghana as the first country in West Africa and the fourth in Africa to deploy DAB. The trial commences in August 2023.