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On World Radio Day, OFCOM launched a promotional campaign to "support the transition to the new DAB+ digital broadcasting standard". The campaign highlights how 54% of listeners in Switzerland now listen to digital radio.

Radioplayer Car will speak the station name to you and automatically switch between FM, DAB and online reception to stay connected to a particular station whilst driving.

Radioplayer, has launched its Radioplayer Car hybrid service, complete with on-demand location-specific traffic information. The world’s first voice-controlled hybrid radio adaptor offers an easy upgrade for car stereos and is a ‘smart radio’ system, able to switch intelligently between DAB, FM or streaming, to find the strongest signal.

Additional features include satellite navigation with DAB radio, auto-dimming rear view mirror, heated windscreen, heated front seats and front parking sensors. Other additions include new seat upholstery and bespoke 17-inch alloys.

Radioplayer Car is the world’s first voice-controlled hybrid radio adaptor, offering an easy upgrade for car stereos. It’s a ‘smart radio’ system, able to switch intelligently between DAB, FM or streaming, to find the strongest signal.

Digital radio currently accounts for more than half (54%) of total radio use in Switzerland. In German-speaking Switzerland, DAB+ continues to be favored and it is hoped the other two regions gradually follow suit.

Radioplayer Car, a voice-controlled hybrid radio adaptor, which it says, offers an easy upgrade for car stereos. The “smart radio” system is able to switch between DAB, FM or streaming, to find the strongest signal.

Radioplayer Car is the world’s first voice-controlled hybrid radio adaptor, offering an easy upgrade for car stereos. It’s a ‘smart radio’ system, able to switch intelligently between DAB, FM or streaming, to find the strongest signal.

Jerry Ibbotson looks at the reasons behind Norway’s decision to go fully digital, and asks whether it could be a sign of things to come in other countries such as the UK.

The chairman of the ARD Radio Commission, Nathalie Wappler Hagen, emphasised the importance of radio in the digital world. This is reflected in the radio content that ARD offers, the daily (Mon-Fri) reach around of 38.5 million people, which now includes those listening to digital stations.