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Digital radio is on course for success. How did digital radio grow in Switzerland in 2011? How did MCDT support its promotion? Answers to these questions and further information can be found in the first MCDT Ltd annual report, which has been published as an interactive flip-book.

Join Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien (BLM) for a conference on digital radio on 17th July 2012 in Munich. The event will provide an update on DAB + roll out in the German market and current marketing initiatives.

The Bavarian Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting (BLM) invites you with its partners, the Bavarian Radio (BR) and Bayern Digital Radio GmbH (BDR) for BLM-Forum "DIGITAL RADIO 2012 ... on" at + "course" 17 July 2012 in the House of Literature in Munich.

Swiss radio licenses for FM bands are no longer being issued, since Switzerland, like most of Europe, is planning to get rid of FM in favour of DAB radio, and the deadline that has been set is 2015.

DIGITAL radio is finally starting to emerge as a viable choice.

Six companies have applied to the digital terrestrial transmission capacities for national dissemination or distribution of private broadcasting in digital technology (DAB) in North Rhine-Westphalia. In detail: Culture Shocker (rmc media + creative consult GmbH, Wuppertal), Domradio (education center for the Archdiocese of Cologne eV, Cologne), TopDABRadio (Pleximedia GmbH, Berlin), MEGA RADIO (MEGA Radio Bayern GmbH, Augsburg), absolute relax (The New wave radio mbH & Co.KG, Nuernberg), 3 programs, each with different music formats (REGIOCAST DIGITAL GmbH, Leipzig).

Raidió Rí-Rá ( rrr.ie), an Irish-language station which plays chart music for young people, also announced Monday that they would begin to broadcast live on the Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) platform in Dublin and Waterford this Sunday, in Cork and Limerick by the end of 2012 and nationally after that.

Kenwood multimedia system with DAB technology. Introducing the first multimedia system from Kenwood Electronics featuring cutting-edge digital radio.

Q8 is the latest DAB module of the Quantek DAB product family. Optimized for mainstream audio applications, Quantek's powerful Q8 DAB/DAB /DMB-R.

That's the message of the summer digital radio communications campaign that is being launched on Saturday 30 June by both BBC and commercial radio.