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Digging deeper into the numbers, one of the main catalysts for this growth has been digital radio – both in terms of listening via a digital platform and listener growth for digital only radio stations.

Dee Ford, Group Managing Director Radio, Bauer Media, said: “… To deliver almost half of listening through digital sources is a tremendous achievement, demonstrates our continued commitment to digital and it sets up our business extremely well with a strong and healthy digital future as DAB grows and we move towards switchover.”

Listening to radio on AM/FM in London has fallen below 50% for the first time (48.6%, down 10% year on year). 55% of Londoners listen to radio on a digital platform each week, and digital listening in London is now 44.1% of all radio listening hours, up 9% from 40.3% in Q1 2013.

27.1 million people now tune in to radio via a digitally enabled receiver - DAB radio, digital TV and online. In total, 25 million adults have access to a DAB receiver, up 10% year on year.

The Solar Condor DAB and FM radio is a pocket-sized portable radio, smaller than a box of cigarettes, with a slot for a TF card (a micro SD card). A TF card loaded with songs means at the click of a button, you can turn the radio into an MP3 player.

Czech Radiokomunikace has summed up the main issues discussed at the conference on digital terrestrial radio broadcasting, DAB - Innovation Day – Radio in the 21st Century, which took place in Prague on 13 May.

Today, Škoda presented an overview on which of their vehicles would be offering DAB radios.

The use of DAB+ digital radio in vehicles is incontrovertible, and a timetable for switching from VHF to DAB+ is essential. Speakers and experts were unanimous on this when they discussed the future development of DAB+ in cars in front of a 100-strong audience in May.

Test transmissions for Derbyshire's new DAB digital radio multiplex have commenced. The multiplex will allow listeners in the area to tune into BBC Radio Derby via DAB for the first time.

Two key themes emerged from the Digital Radio summit masterminded by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to coincide with the recent Geneva Motor Show. The first was that the digital radio revolution is gathering speed – with a switch away from FM by bigger stations increasingly likely in coming years. The second was that digital radio and mobile phone technologies are steadily moving closer together – all changes which seem certain to benefit drivers and radio listeners.