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At this week's first ever conference about in-vehicle digital radio, senior executives heard Communications Minister Ed Vaizey welcome the progress made on increasing the availability of digital radio in cars. “This expansion of national coverage and a ...

The Media Council of the Bavarian Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting (BLM), approved the local broadcast of the Munich-based radio program 2Day Radio Digital Radio on the DAB + standard

The Media Council of the Bavarian Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting (BLM) has in its meeting on 13th October 2011, approved the nationwide broadcasting of five new radio programs in the DAB + standard for eight years. The five approved programs to be broadcast nationwide on the frequency block 12D. The transmission is starting by January 2012.

With the launch of DAB digital radio across Germany in August and the planned launch in Hong Kong by the end of the year, digital radio chipmaker Frontier Silicon is launching new software to make implementing value-added services easier. ...

The BDR will be Munich Media Days 2011 to show digital radio in all its breadth and diversity. Visitors can experience the 30 different receivers listen in more than 40 digital radio programs and test services such as current service Journaline and live broadcasts.

Tim Davie, the BBC's director of audio and music said that intention was to get digital radio up to the same level of coverage as FM radio by 2015, including all of the motorway network. DAB radio as standard rises 340 %

The UK new car market has seen a 184% increase in the standard fitment of digital radio in the first nine months of 2011 compared to the same period in 2010. The latest data from Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and CAP was revealed as SMMT ...

The BBC has confirmed it will plough ahead with plans to roll out the digital radio network to 97% of the UK despite the Corporation's tight finances. DAB currently reaches 90% of the country. Under the Beeb's plans every town with a population of over ...

More than 14 million digital radio sets have been sold in the UK and the medium currently accounts for more than a quarter of all radio listening. Vaizey said the industry was on course to hits its 50% target by the end of 2013 – with Government set to ...

The BBC has confirmed that it will pay for the rollout of the UK's digital audio broadcasting (DAB) radio infrastructure to reach 97% of the population. Tim Davie, the corporation's director of audio and music, said that the BBC would fund the ...