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Frontier Smart Technologies is helping to enrich the digital radio experience by supporting integration of full colour displays into DAB+ radios. All Frontier modules now include support for a colour user interface, which allows users to benefit from the Slideshow services being offered by leading broadcasters around the world.

Held in Paris at the end of January, the European Radio and Digital Audio Show brought together stakeholders from across the French radio industry and beyond to discuss the future of radio in France, Europe and around the world. It also served as a platform to highlight the opportunities DAB+ digital radio brings for the radio, manufacturing, retail and automotive sectors.

The Mirror's roundup of the best radio receivers on the market featuring DAB+ digital radio capabilities.

The WorldDAB General Assembly 2020 will take place in Prague, Czech Republic on 3-4 November 2020. The event will see over 200 experts from across the broadcast, automotive and receiver manufacturer industries come together to discuss the future of digital radio.

The Saxon State Institute for Private Broadcasting and New Media and the Digital Audio Broadcasting Platform have been able to resolve their long-standing legal dispute out of court, which finally clears the way for the second national DAB+ DAB+ multiplex. Consumers across Germany will soon benefit from an additional 16 digital radio programs.

At the end of 2019, all tunnels over 300 meters long located across major national roads in Switzerland - approximately 200 tunnels in total - were equipped with DAB+ reception signals.

The radio programs of Croatian public broadcaster HRT (Hrvatska Radiotelevizija) can now also be received in large parts of the country via DAB+, marking the first time public radio stations are available on DAB+ in the country.

French radio group Groupe 1981, which last year acquired radio stations OÜI FM, Radio Life and Collector Radio has revealed its plans to focus on the expansion of its DAB+ services in 2020.

Albrecht's new digital radio adapter, the DR 50 B, provides crystal-clear digital radio reception and enables up to 20 DAB+ radio stations to be stored directly on it.

DAB + was once again present at the Radio and Digital Audio Show. From January 23 to 25, there were several conferences to unveil the latest developments in digital terrestrial radio.