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Digital Radio UK and the Radio Academy North West will be holding a free radio event looking at digital radio in the area. Doing the DAB, which has already held events in Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester, will be held on 13 June 2017 at the Radio City Tower.

Malu Dreyer, the Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate and Chairman of the Broadcasting Commission of the Länder, has praised the new DAB+ campaign, and says it sends a strong message of support for DAB+ in Germany. Dreyer also announced new discussions are taking place on the framework of the Digital Radio Action Plan.

Retro style design portable radio with DAB/DAB+/FM tuner.

JACK's latest offspring, JACK 3, has launched on DAB. The station will be “Chilling when we want” and available in the Oxfordshire area on digital radio, as well as online.

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.