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Sweden’s Liberal Party sets out Policy on Digital Radio Transition

03.05.2011 - Sveriges Radio - Sweden

Sweden’s Liberal Party, part of the country’s four party alliance government, has called for the public broadcaster, Sveriges Radio, to be given the opportunity to start the transition to digital radio through a direct subsidy from the Broadcasting Fund.

CSA approves digital radio demonstration in Lyon, France

28.04.2011 - VDL - France

the French regulator CSQ, has approved the ‘RNT Lyon’ project - a consumer focused digital radio demonstration...

Arqiva launches Affinity Radio

21.04.2011 - Arqiva WorldDAB Member - United Kingdom

Arqiva, the communications infrastructure and media services company, has launched Affinity Radio onto the NOW Digital Cambridge DAB platform. This has made Cambridge-based Affinity Radio the UK's first location-specific, community-focused radio ...

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Digital radio opens up to community broadcasting

18.04.2011 - Australia

Community radio stations around the nation have officially launched their move into DAB digital radio transmissions starting with Melbourne today. Nine Melbourne community broadcasters, including RRR and PBS-FM, ...

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New Mother’s Day ads for digital radio

18.04.2011 - Commercial Radio & Audio WorldDAB Member - Australia

Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) has launched a new series of radio and online advertisements promoting digital radio for Mother’s Day.

The Swedish Liberal Party presents its program on radio politics

15.04.2011 - Sveriges Radio - Sweden

The concession fees for the commercial radio must be lowered more than the government has announced in the state budget for 2012. We also need to know the government’s aim to invest in digital radio, says Christer Nylander, the Liberal Party’s spokesperson on cultural affairs.

Norwegian proposal on the digitization of radio

15.04.2011 - Norway

On 4 February 2011 The Norwegian Ministry of Culture presented a report on the digitization of radio to the Storting (the Norwegian national assembly) The report determines the conditions that must be met and a target date for switch-off of FM radio-services.

Frontier Silicon enables the lowest cost CD mini and micro Hi-Fi system with DAB/DAB+/DMB-R digital radio and iPhone 4 docking

13.04.2011 - Frontier Smart Technologies WorldDAB Member - Hong Kong

Frontier Silicon Ltd, the market leading supplier of digital radio technology worldwide will be demonstrating their latest reference design, Mercury 4i, at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition

Digital radio in your car: Just buy a new BMW

04.04.2011 - Australia

DAB digital radio is slowly making its way into cars, with an announcement on Friday that all new BMW 5 Series and 7 Series cars will be able to have DAB digital radios fitted as an option from May. The new BMW 6 Series sedan will have DAB digital ...

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