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From 11 to 15 June, Dutch public and commercial radio stations will commemorate "The Week of digital radio", which is being held for the fifth time.

Swiss Federal Communications Commission (ComCom) has opened a tender for new DAB+ licences for digital radio broadcasting in the French-speaking part of the country, Romandy. The tender documents were published on the regulator's website on 28 May and applications can be submitted until 27 July. The award of licences is expected by the end of the year.

We are thinking only about digital radio, we are thinking about DAB+. The analogue frequencies are exhausted, so for all applications that come to the National Broadcasting Council on the launch, we mostly respond negatively," KRRiT chairman Witold Kołodziejski said at Monday's conference "Perspectives for the development of local and regional radio on DAB+".

The AX205DB is the successor to the AX200 and has one extra feature: a DAB+ tuner.

The RAJAR reach study for the first quarter of 2018, published on 16 May 2018, accounts for 50.9 percent of DAB+. A year ago, it was still 47.2 percent.

The new radio with a “retro” look is a receiver for FM, AM, DAB and streaming via the internet using its internal 4G Android device.

A new small-scale digital radio multiplex is set to launch in Cork in August for a 12-month trial. Under a licence from ComReg, the experiment will be operated by éirdab and have the facility to provide around 20 radio stations.

There are four bluetooth speakers presented by Geneva, with a very elegant retro line that recalls portable radios of the last century. In fact, two models also have a radio section with DAB + and FM to complete the use.

Bavaria's new Minister for Digital, Media and Europe Georg Eisenreich has confirmed that the state government's view is that DAB+ should be the sole radio standard. "That is why Bavaria has campaigned for a change in the Telecommunications Act to be agreed in the coalition agreement: in the future, all high-quality radios will be equipped with a digital chip."

The Pure Siesta Rise is a nice compact size, but packs quite a few features into its design. Turning the Siesta Rise on, you are greeted with it finding available DAB radio stations and the time.