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Tom DeVesto, the founder of Tivoli Audio and Cambridge Soundworks, has launched a new portable Wi-Fi radio with built-in FM and DAB+.

2wcom will be showing a range of products, including DAB+ technology, at the 2017 Broadcast Asia conference from 23 to 25 May 2017 in Singapore.

In Germany, the Federal Minister of Economics and Energy, Brigitte Zypries, has presented a draft amendment to the country's Telecommunications Act, which seeks to forbid FM-only radio receivers. The amendment would stipulate that "high-quality audio receivers" may only be sold if they can receive digital (DAB+ and internet) signals as well as analogue FM.

The latest figures from Rajar show an increase of nearly half a million radio listeners in the past year in the UK. Nine-tenths of the UK population (about 48.7 million adults) are tuning in regularly to the radio. Over-the-air DAB is the most popular platform for digital radio listening.

The new KitSound DAB+ car adapter with bluetooth brings digital radio and music streamed from your smart device to your existing in-car audio system.

Thanks to its ability to receive Internet, DAB, DAB+ and FM-RDS radio and also function as a network and USB audio media player the WFT-3 digital receiver by Sangean packs quite a punch.

JACK fm is launching a third radio station in Oxfordshire, playing easy listening music. JACK 3 starts this Friday, May 12th, at 9am on DAB and online.

Sky Vision Satellitenempfangstechnik GmbH (SVS) has produced new product line in DAB+ radios in a RetroDesign.

The DriveSmart 61 LMT-D Europe includes a lifetime subscription to Garmin’s Digital Traffic service, which is delivered via DAB radio.

The line-up of keynote speakers for WorldDAB’s 2017 Automotive Event has been announced, with six speakers scheduled to present information on the latest DAB+ adoption and automotive take-up. The speakers represent European governments, broadcasters and media groups.