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Ekstra Bladet and the BBC World Service are the first new players on the new nationwide commercial DAB+ radio network in Denmark. Several other agreements are on the way, reports the network provider, Teracom.

On Thursday evening, the Danes got two brand new channels on the DAB+ radio network. In addition to the BBC World Service, Ekstra Bladet Radio moves to the brand new network that was officially opened by Culture Minister Mette Bock on Thursday. 80% of Danes will be able to listen to Ekstra Bladet Radio, which only plays music by Danish artists.

Danes can now tune into the BBC World Service and Ekstra Bladet Radio in the latest DAB+ format. The transition from DAB to DAB+ radio in Denmark now allows for 12 new radio stations.

In a major upgrade to their DAB+ trial head-end, SADIBA (the Southern African Digital Broadcasting Association) invited Factum Radioscape to deploy a replacement DAB+ head-end in May 2017 for the remainder of the current DAB+ trial.

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More German listeners will be getting their radio through DAB, as a number of companies are expanding DAB offerings in different regions.

The digital switch over has led to fierce sales of DAB+ radios and adapters for cars at Elkjøp, the largest consumer electronics retailer in the Nordic region. The increase in sales of DAB+ products has been enormous across the different regions of Norway. From January 2017 to the present, the increase in demand for DAB+ car adapters is on average at 1000 percent, while DAB+ receiver sales have increased by 600 percent.

The top-spec Tekna models now come with Bose speakers, adaptive turning headlights and heated seats. You can also get more luxurious leather, in tan or cream, range-standard DAB radio, and a thicker, flat-bottomed steering wheel.

In a major upgrade to their existing Factum Radioscape DAB Head-end System, UPC, a Swiss cable network operator has deployed Factum Radioscape’s software as a multi-ensemble virtualised DAB+ head-end on one server for cable networks, including the migration from DAB to DAB+ audio encoding.

According to Kantar TNS 'official figures, 82 per cent of households across Norway have one or more DAB receiver. Also, people want the new channels - every day 1.2 million Norwegians listen to channels that would not exist without DAB.