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An on-air campaign to support digital radio in the Maltese Islands has been launched, offering listeners guidance on DAB+ devices and retuning. Listeners in Malta and Gozo can receive DAB+ radio thanks to a network of transmitters located across the Maltese Islands covering more than 90% of the population.

Sportradio Deutschland is the first national sports radio station in Germany - and now also a licence partner of the German Football League (Bundesliga). “We broadcast everything about sports around the clock,” says program director Alexander Fabian, “now the Bundesliga is also part of the sports weekend on Sportradio Deutschland".

Network operator Audio.digital NRW GmbH has added private radio broadcaster “egoFM” to their DAB+ network covering North Rhine-Westphalia for ten years. According to MD Christian Strohmeier, this will bring a potential audience of 18 million inhabitants in a largely urban region - the perfect audience for a station like egoFM.

The radio is simple and easy-to-use with tactile buttons and clear voice prompts to guide users through the main functions such as tuning. Users also receive an audible confirmation when buttons are pressed.

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The demand for vacancies on the regional, commercial DAB radio network has been greater than supply, with two media houses competing for space. There were 199 applications from 113 different applicants received for the 97 vacancies available.

Radio listeners between Wolfenbüttel and the mountainous Upper Harz region of Germany can listen to NDR programmes in even better quality via DAB+, with indoor coverage now available on block 6C (185.360 MHz) thanks to a new DAB+ transmitter in Goslar.

The Greek Government incorporated the European Electronic Communication Code into Greek law in June 2021, mandating that all new car radios be able to receive digital terrestrial radio. Greek retail chains and supermarkets have also started selling DAB+ receivers.

In mid-July, the telecommunications company PSN Infrastruktura put into operation a new DAB+ multiplex in the Polish city of Opole. Currently, four radio stations are broadcast and a further transmitter is planned.

Kult Hit Radio reflects the cultural diversity of the region by creating a "we" feeling among the listener community. Listeners are at the centre of the station's proposition, with programme content developed interactively through audience participation. Currently available on the internet only, Kult Hit Radio will launch on DAB+ in September.