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The new commercial radio industry’s boss Ford Ennals has warned that global tech companies must not interfere in making radio services content free and easy to access. Ennals said the tech platforms had “great influence and increasing power because they are in so many households and people rely on them”. “When people want to listen to their favourite radio podcasts or their favourite show it ought to be easy to access and it ought to be what they get,” he said.

Radioline is releasing major updates with a new generation of apps for mobile/tablet, web, connected TV and automotive. In the transition from analogue to digital, Radioline offers an integrated option for hybrid radio to OEMs, triggering from the broadcast or broadband signal for the best reception.

Czech Radio, in cooperation with České Radiokomunikace, is embarking on a significant expansion of its DAB+ multiplex. The North Bohemian transmitter at Ještěd has increased its power from the original 1 kW to 5 kW, improving coverage in the Liberec and Central Bohemian regions.

With the start of the first nationwide multiplex, DAB+ listeners in the Güstrow and Eisenhüttenstadt regions can look forward to 13 new radio stations in the best digital quality. The transmitter site in Güstrow went into operation on April 20th, the transmitter in Neuzelle near Eisenhüttenstadt is scheduled to go into operation on April 28th.

The National Broadcasting Council has published a list of eight applicants to broadcast on Poland's nationwide DAB+ multiplex.

Ford Ennals has now established himself in the new role as CEO of Commercial Radio Australia, replacing Joan Warner as she hangs up the gloves after close to 20 years. "Australia has one of the most advanced and dynamic radio and audio markets in the world and is enjoying strong innovation and growth with digital radio," he says.

"Broadcasting allows you to reach many people at the same time, something that IP still cannot do. I was lucky enough to work at EBU for two years and my colleagues continued - and continue - to remember that even with 5G we cannot even imagine serving all the millions of users who currently use the radio," says Borgnino.

The idea started over a cup of tea on a construction site. Now a builders’ radio station is going national with an ambition to fix it for tradesmen who hate music repeats and adverts. It is preparing to go national on DAB, and is planning to crowdfund £1 million for a marketing blitz.

Joe D’Angelo, senior vice president of broadcast radio for Xperi Corp, says "digital broadcast technologies have allowed broadcasters to modernise their infrastructure, improve the quality of their audio services, offer a wider variety of programming and, for the first time, deliver rich, descriptive visual metadata to enhance the end-user experience. But at its core, radio’s most valuable attributes are not technology-dependent, but come from its programming and localism, immediacy and connection to a community."

With the arrival of West Flanders on 10D, all five Flemish test muxes for local radio can now be heard via DAB+. As in Antwerp, the fifteen local stations opted to act jointly as operators themselves.