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“Digital radio continues to go from strength to strength with all markets making significant progress in the last six months,” said Patrick Hannon, President of WorldDAB. “The leading markets in Europe and Asia Pacific have almost 50 million DAB receivers on the market, offering an impressive selection of national stations compared to FM/analogue broadcasts.

"Digital radio continues its successful journey and for the last six months has made great progress. Norway next year plans to switch off analogue FM transmitters, Switzerland will gradually follow him in 2020. Denmark, Great Britain and Germany are currently at work term shutdown" said Patrick Hannon, President of WorldDAB.

A consortium of broadcasting companies and organizations has joined forces to develop an open and universal interface to ease the implementation of digital radio on smartphones. The Open Mobile Radio Interface (OMRI) was announced during IBC on Monday.

WorldDAB has released its latest collection of sales and coverage figures for key markets in Europe and Asia Pacific to the end of Q2 2016. Available to download as an infographic, the statistics include road and overall population coverage, receiver sales, household penetration and, for the first time, the number of national stations on DAB/DAB+ compared to FM.

Global’s Capital has appeared on the Digital One multiplex as Capital UK, taking the London based hit music station truly national for the first time. Capital joins other Global brands Capital XTRA, Smooth Extra, Heart extra, LBC, Classic and Radio X on D1.

On show at IBC was the JVD dipole side-mounted antenna, which Jampro describe as ideal for DAB Band III, where low wind loadings are required. Designed for vertical polarisation, the antenna’s rugged galvanised and stainless steel construction is intended to provide many years of dependable performance, even in the harshest environments.

I love that you don't need to set the time when you plug in these DAB+ clock radios – they know what time it is as soon as they get power. This is perfect if there's been a power outage and the electricity comes back on.

Generous kit levels also befit the Q30's premium aspirations with heated sports seats, touchscreen satnav and multimedia interface, Bluetooth, digital radio, automatic park assist, reversing camera, around view monitor and voice recognition all included.

All models have 17-inch alloy wheels as standard as is the eight-inch colour touch-screen. This allows Bluetooth connection and has a built-in DAB digital radio, CD player and 4 x 20 watt output through eight speakers.

New Factum Radioscape products on display at IBC 2016 include DAB products for Virtualised Server Broadcast Systems, OBSERVA Multiplex Supervisor, OBSERVA Field Monitor and DETS Voice Break-in Systems for Tunnels.