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The digital switch will enable people in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide to listen to Smoothfm via DAB Radio, online streaming and an iphone app. And advertisers will now be able to book the station nationally, through dmg radio's local sales teams.

The new DAB transmitters will be switched on in a ceremony at Bletchley Park's National Museum of Radio tomorrow morning, coverage of which will be available via @RadioTodayLIVE with Arqiva.

MKFM is preparing to bring a full community radio service to MK on the new DAB Digital Radio multiplex.

London agency RKCR/Y&R has launched a viral music video for the BBC and Digital Radio UK called 'Endless Dove.' It features D Love, the diminutive new star of digital radio, his pet dove, and huge up and coming talent Phebe Edwards.

The key points of the EBU Recommendation are: • there should be adequate national planning, in order to provide digital solutions for all radio services; • there should be immediate deployment using DAB+, which uses more advanced audio coding than the original DAB standard; • where DAB coverage isn’t possible the Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) system should be used; • enhanced features such as text, images and programme guides should accompany digitization; • hybrid services taking advantage of additional internet-delivered content should be deployed, for example using the RadioDNS system; • added momentum could be given to deployment if it were possible to agree on harmonization around a future analogue switch-off date for radio in Europe.

The EBU launched a new technical Recommendation at the Digital Radio Summit today, in Geneva, confident that it will bring added impetus to the rollout of digital radio services across Europe.

The public service broadcaster is the leader in digital audio broadcasting. From 1 March, the selection of digital audio broadcasting (DAB) will be expanded to include new projects of Czech Radio.

As much previously reported, the move from analogue to digital-only radio is taking much longer than it did in the TV domain, with the radio industry itself split on the long-term viability of the DAB platform.

The BBC and Digital Radio UK have revealed their latest ad featuring diminutive new star of digital radio D Love, entitled 'Endless Dove'.

The trial, called GO Digital, is being held ahead of a ministerial decision on when or if a switchover to digital radio should take place. This project follows on from the nation-wide switch-off of the analog television signals across the U.K.