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The 2016 WorldDAB General Assembly will bring together an audience of more than 200 radio experts including policy makers, broadcasters and industry representatives to discuss the future of digital radio.The dominant theme of this year's event will be the growing momentum towards the deployment of DAB across Europe and beyond.

Digital radio can currently be received  in the following cities: Bialystok, Kielce, Koszalin, Krakow, Lublin, Lodz, Opole, Poznan, Rzeszow, Szczecin, Torun, Tri-City, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Zielona Gora. Trial transmissions are also being conducted in the area of ​​Siedlce.

Pure Siesta S2 is a simply designed box. The front is a black screen, the case is white or black. The display is beautiful to see and switches in low light automatically to a lower intensity

ASX 3 is priced from £18,349 and includes DAB radio, automatic Xenon headlights and wipers, climate control, heated front seats and a reversing camera

A touchscreen infotainment system kitted with satellite navigation is also a standard feature, as well as Bluetooth connectivity and a DAB digital radio.

By expanding the DAB+ signal SRG SSR supply increases in Switzerland to over 100 radio programs. Listeners can more SRG program received other language regions: Radio SRF 3, Couleur 3 and Rete Tre can be heard almost all over the country. Is considerably extended and the transmission area of the regional news from Radio SRF. 1

DAB+ radio broadcasting will be extended to over 100 Swiss radio stations in mid-November. Under the next phase of the roll-out, Radio SRF 3, Couleur 3 and Rete Tre will be available across the country, and the broadcast range of SRF 1 will be expanded.

Chris Country became available in parts of the UK on DAB digital radio earlier this year. Rajar figures reveal that in London, 35,000 listeners tune into Chris Country every week; and each listen for an average of 8.2 hours a week. 8.2 is a very high figure for a digital-exclusive station: the most popular digital station, Kisstory, only achieves 5.5 hours a week.

The UK Radio Festival included a significant first speech from Britain’s new minister for Digital Matt Hancock. He announced that the trials of small-scale DAB, using freely-available software and equipment costing from £9,000 ($11,500), had been “highly successful and showed that the small scale approach to DAB transmission is technically sound.”

The Flemish government has published a draft decree on the future radio landscape. Minister Gatz outlined how the decree must ensure that the radio landscape is diverse and how digital radio is a key part of this.