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Coles Radio retains the top spot on the DAB+ survey with 270,000 listeners Australia wide.

In the keynote opening, said Joan Warner of CRA: “In one day, a listener can wake up to breakfast radio, listen in the car using DAB+, follow a radio show page on Facebook, listen on-demand to a radio podcast, use a mobile app or listen on a smart speaker such as an Amazon Echo using voice technology. To make all this happen, radio has forged new partnerships with global giants and utilised our deep content expertise to create new customer experiences."

When it came to metro performance, SCA chief executive Grant Blackley told Radio Today there are three key factors underpinning this year’s performance - one of which is the continued maturity of SCA's DAB brands, which are now interwoven across SCA's entire radio platform.

Slovenia's R1 DAB+ multiplex is now full with the last remaining slots being awarded by the media regulator AKOS to Radio Aktual and Radio City. There were 11 applicants - four new stations and seven already broadcasting on FM. Once on air, and in case of any remaining space, a further licence could be awarded.

Media Broadcast has won a contract following a tender by the Media Authority for digital radio coverage in Kiel, Lubeck and Sylt. The contract is valid until 2022. Media Broadcast will cooperate with the Media Authority in a pilot project to test the broadcast of local and regional programmes via DAB+.

In this series of interviews on WorldDAB members exhibiting at IBC, Anne Borsum from the IZT explains how he sees the digital radio industry evolving in the coming years, and tells us about the DAB+ products the EBU will showcase at this year’s event.

In this series of interviews on WorldDAB members exhibiting at IBC, Ben Poor from the EBU explains how he sees the digital radio industry evolving in the coming years, and tells us about the DAB+ products the EBU will showcase at this year’s event.

WorldDAB is getting set to attend IBC2019. The transition to digital radio in a connected world, and how to adopt a sound radio distribution strategy, will be a major focus for the organisation, which will hold a session titled “Radio Distribution Strategies for a Connected World” on Monday 16 September from 9-10.30 am.

A major Swiss cable network operator have built upon their Factum Radioscape virtualised DAB+ system with the addition of the complementary Observa Monitoring solution. The monitor and analyser software will be hosted on independent industrial PCs in a 1+1 redundancy scheme for complete network assurance.

Public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk has announced its plans to maintain as well as expand its DAB+ presence in the Lower Saxony region in the northwest of Germany, highlighting yet again its commitment to the development of DAB+ digital radio in Germany.