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However, DAB digital radio - through a box that looks like a typical radio - is 25.9% of all radio listening; and it grew by 9.3% year-on-year.

Strong growth for DAB to 25.9 percent (up 9.3 percent) and internet/apps to 6.8 percent (up 6.3 percent). Nearly half of all UK households (49 percent) now have a digital radio set. Digital listening in car grows 52 percent, to 16 percent of hours in-car.

Hossein Yassaie is CEO of Imagination Technologies, and he has been head of the graphics company for quite some time – since 1998, in fact. Yassaie also kicked off the firm's Pure division when he saw a gap in the digital radio market, and while the initial intention might not have been to shift products to consumers – the first radio was really meant as a demo platform for Pure's DAB chip – success quickly led to a range of DAB radios (like the Evoke), portable wireless speakers, iPhone docks and the like.

Recent research on DAB radio notes that 7 million Italians know what digital radio is and that there are already more than one million receivers active in the market. The auto market is responding with 200 models with DAB radio.

AgCom has published the plan of frequencies for digital radio in 40 new regions.

With 2.17 million listeners, the channel, which airs classic comedy, dramas and documentaries, has overtaken 6 Music and classical music station Radio 3.

Network operator Media Broadcast has presented further plans for the network expansion of DAB+ radio multiplexes in Germany which will expanded to 110 transmitters by the end of 2016.

The big winner in the latest audience grab is Radio 4 Extra, the digital network formerly known as Radio 7, rebranded in 2011. It has posted 2.17 million listeners, an increase on last quarter and on this time last year. It is now the biggest digital-only station in the UK. Why?

Simon Kilby, head of marketplace at Bauer Media: The growth in digital opportunities for advertisers is flourishing with over half of all radio listeners owning a DAB digital radio (52%). Crucially, UK digital radio listeners are 19% more likely to notice adverts on the radio than the average UK adult.

Media Broadcast Gmbh continues its DAB digital radio transmitter network expansion which will see the the number of transmitter sites extend from 61 to 110 by 2016. In addition the power transmission power at selected transmitter sites will also increase.