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In Britain, the threshold of 50% of digital audience has been exceeded according to a study published by RAJAR and advertising revenues have increased significantly.

DAB digital radio is available and you can choose the B & O PLAY Sound System.

Commercial has reported its highest ever audience of 35.97 million listeners, according to new figures for Q1 2018 published by RAJAR. This total audience represents a 4.2% increase on the same period last year and commercial radio’s biggest ever lead over BBC radio, with 960,000 more listeners overall. The record listening figures are evidence of continued strong performance by the commercial radio sector, which has also kicked off 2018 with its highest ever revenues Q1 at £179.3m – an increase of 12.5% year-on-year.

The point at which digital radio listening overtook analogue radio listening was a long-standing trigger point, designed to prompt the Government into to conducting a review on the possibility of a digital radio switchover. It's now over to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to progress the matter.

The digital DAB / DAB+ / FM programs score not only with noise-free reception quality, but also with practical additional information about the current program. These can be clearly and clearly read in the large Dot Matrix Display . Five favorite stations are available via favorite buttons on the front panel on fingertip.

In addition to this privacy glass, DAB radio with Bluetooth and six speakers, LED daytime running lights, 17-inch wheels, body coloured door mirrors and four electric windows, also come as standard.

It’s finally happened – digital now accounts for more than half of radio listening. The Q1 RAJAR figures revealed that the share of all radio listening via a digital platform now stands at 50.9% - up from 47.2% a year earlier. Five years ago, it was just 34.3%. DAB digital radio now accounts for 36.8% of listening and has a 72% share of digital listening hours.

The Bavarian Center for New Media (BLM) has allocated new DAB+ capacities for private broadcasters in Lower Bavaria, the Upper Palatinate and the Allgäu regions. Station Oldie Radio Niederbayern has been assigned additional capacity in Block 7D, with the service to go to air from July. In the Upper Palatinate, Radio Charivari Regensburg will have their new DAB+ capacity available from 3 July. For Allgäu, the local FM and cable radio programmes can now be distributed via a regional DAB+ network Allgäu simulcast.

Digital listening has reached a new record share of 50.9% – a landmark achievement for the industry which hopes will trigger action from the Government about the future of DAB. Overall, digital listening hours grew by 7.8% compared to Q1 2017. The greatest amount of digital listening takes place on a DAB radio which now accounts for 36.8% of all listening and 72.2% of digital listening, with hourly growth of 8.9% year on year.

More than 50% of people are now listening to radio digitally for the first time, following the release of the RAJAR Q1 report. This is one of the key targets necessary for the government to begin consulting about the digital switchover, with DAB to become the primary broadcast standard following the switchoff of FM and AM services.