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The BBC’s Director of Radio and Music, Bob Shennan, set the tone at this year’s RadioDays Europe conference in Amsterdam with a statement of his ambition “to reinvent and grow radio”. Speakers across the three-day event reinforced the message that radio remains in good health, despite increased competition from streaming audio and other platforms.

Radiodays Europe 2017 came to a close yesterday after three days at the RAI Convention Center in Amsterdam. A notable session from the conference discussed how Norway has scrapped FM broadcasting in favor of DAB+ and digital broadcasting.

Radioinfo took the opportunity during Radiodays Europe to ask Ole Jørgen Torvmark, the CEO of Digital Radio Norway, for his views on Norway's switchover to DAB+ digital radio.

Norway has begun switching its traditional FM network to a digital-only (DAB+) broadcasting system. In January radio signals were shut off in Bodo, Nordland, with the remaining regions scheduled to follow by the end of the year.

DAB+ with Service Following and Traffic Announcements, FM transmitter, big colour display with 5 preset buttons, Bluetooth and handsfree are just some of the features of POPyourCAR 3.0, one of the most traffic safe solutions for inCar DAB+.

The sonoroSTEREO 2 with Bluetooth, FM and DAB radio, USB playback and a slot-in-CD drive impresses lite magazine with its unique design, simple elegance, excellent workmanship and great features.

GfK has released the year’s first DAB+ survey results, showing cumulative audience numbers for each station. Since the first DAB+ broadcast in 2009, this is the first time that audience numbers for all DAB+ only stations have been released one week after the official metropolitan GfK radio ratings.

For the first time since the launch of DAB+ digital radio broadcasts at the end of 2009, audience numbers for all DAB+ only stations have been released one week after the official metropolitan GfK radio ratings.

The hi-spec Outlander PHEV Juro will now come equipped with Electronic Parking Brake with Auto Hold, EV Priority Mode, Smartphone Link Display Audio with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, DAB radio, and a reversing camera.

Four million new vehicles fitted with DAB+ are predicted to be sold by the end of 2021, doubling the number of current vehicles with the technology, according to projections by PwC. In-car listening remains one of the most popular ways for Australians to listen to radio and growing audiences on the road are expected to contribute to the significant growth of DAB+ over the next five years.