Safety alerts on DAB+ radio: The Automatic Safety Alert (ASA) website keeps listeners informed
With the “ASA DE” service, the Automatic Safety Alert (ASA) will go on air across Germany via the DAB+ network from 10 September. For listeners, the cross-sector information portal run by Digitalradio Deutschland e.V. has set up a dedicated information page: www.dabplus.de/asa. The page provides step-by-step instructions on how to set up ASA-certified radios. The page also provides clear information, supported by video examples, on how to use the warning system and its benefits. ‘ASA DE’ expands the existing mix of warning methods – comprising sirens, apps and cell broadcasts – to include safety alerts broadcast directly via DAB+ radio.
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Slovakian regulator launches DAB+ consultation
Slovakia is moving closer to commercial digital radio broadcasting. The regulator launched a public consultation on 19 August to assist it in its decision-making. The Office for the Regulation of Electronic Communications and Postal Services, as planned, launched a public consultation on the forthcoming tender for DAB+ digital radio frequencies. This is a further step towards the introduction of regular digital radio broadcasting in Slovakia. The Office now wishes to gather the views of both the market and the public on the specific terms of the forthcoming tender.
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Bayern Digital Radio implements regional forwarding of DAB+ Automatic Safety Alerts using RFmondial technology
DAB+ has developed Automatic Safety Alert (ASA) to respond to disasters, where weaknesses in mobile network failures and limited accessibility via radio were observed. As not every DAB+ network must implement a comprehensive warning management, alerts from other ensembles can easily be included in its own network using RFmondial’s technology. The mechanism to trigger such other ensemble alerts is implemented by Bayern Digital Radio GmbH (BDR) using several RF-DAB measurement and monitoring receivers throughout its Bavarian wide network.
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Radio Bounce is expanding its terrestrial coverage on DAB+
Radio Bounce has been added to the DAB+ digital radio multiplex in Andrychów (Małopolska Province). In the coming days, the station will also make its debut on the multiplex in Bielsko-Biała and Gliwice. It has already been available in Warsaw, Poznań, Kraków and Katowice. Radio Bounce launched in July. It also broadcasts online, amongst other platforms. It is operated by the company Bounce, based in Suwałki.
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Czech Radio North has improved its DAB+ coverage
RTI cz has carried out modifications to the major Klínovec radio transmitter in western Bohemia. The operator has adjusted the antenna alignment for the existing 9D channel and, at the same time, installed a completely new antenna system for the 9B channel. The change brings a significant improvement in digital radio reception for listeners in the Ústí nad Labem Region, as well as an adjustment to coverage in the Karlovy Vary Region. The adjustment to channel 9D for the operator RTI cz involved re-aiming the transmission antennas more precisely towards the Karlovy Vary Region. For the Ústí nad Labem Region, the operator has chosen channel 9B, which utilises a newly installed antenna system.
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Teleko Digital is attracting new customers to its DAB+ network and has launched its own information channel
Teleko digital has launched a new service for listeners of terrestrial digital radio in the form of its own information channel. This project is aimed at promoting DAB+ technology and is primarily intended to attract new customers from among radio stations to use digital broadcasting. The new channel is called TELEKO DAB promo. The promotional clips accompanying the channel’s launch take a highly unconventional and creative approach. In one of them, for example, two characters engage in a dialogue about the transformation of a ‘spooky castle’ into a modern broadcasting centre. This metaphor symbolises the end of the era of analogue limitations and the advent of a clear, digital signal that spreads from the castle’s heights to every corner of our country.
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WorldDAB puts radio resilience at center of IBC2026
WorldDAB and Broadcast NetworksEurope will bring policy, emergency alerting and digital migration into focus during IBC2026 in Amsterdam. Their session, “Broadcast radio’s moment: resilient, relevant, irreplaceable,” takes place Sunday, Sept. 13, from 2:30–4 p.m. in Room E102. WorldDAB Project Director Bernie O’Neill will produce and moderate the program, followed by networking coffee in the Ruby Lounge outside the conference room.
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From 9 to 5 (well, 3 to 4): Coles turns up Dolly Parton nationwide
Coles is turning the supermarket aisles into a country music celebration, with stores across Australia set to honour country music icon Dolly Parton with a special hour of her greatest hits. From 3pm to 4pm on Wednesday 26 August, Coles Radio will turn up Dolly Parton across all Coles stores nationwide, celebrating the songs and extraordinary music career that have made her one of the world’s most loved entertainers. Coles customers can enjoy the Dolly Parton tribute in-store, while Coles Radio is also available via DAB and the Nova Player.
Coles Radio is Australia’s favourite digital radio station (GFK Survey #4 Cumulative Audience (000's) by Demographic, Mon-Sun 5.30am-12midnight).
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Radio Muzikant, Radio Valentina, Novice Logatec and Radio Luna are already broadcasting via DAB+
The range of DAB+ digital radio stations in Slovenia has been expanded with the addition of four new stations. Radio Muzikant and Radio Valentina have begun broadcasting on the national R4 network, whilst Novice Logatec and Radio Luna have joined listeners on the R3 network, which primarily covers Ljubljana and the surrounding area. All four stations secured the right to digital broadcasting in the latest public tender, has already been reported on digitalniradio.si. For the time being, the broadcaster has not yet released any further details about the new stations, their programming concepts or planned content.
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Radio Odiseja is launched – the official radio station of the Boscarol group
Radio Odiseja, a new radio program of the Odisejada d.o.o. company, has begun broadcasting. The company was successful in the public tender of the Agency for Communications Networks and Services of the Republic of Slovenia (AKOS). Radio Odiseja thus became the 17th radio program in the national digital network DAB + R4, through which it is accessible to listeners throughout Slovenia. Its music selection consists of approximately 3000 of the greatest Slovenian and foreign hits. The program will be complemented by news, traffic and weather information, entertainment and cultural content, contact shows, live broadcasts and our own production. Special attention will also be paid to the happening in Odiseja.
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Bristol’s Noods Radio joins DAB+ for the first time
Noods Radio, the independent station launched in Bristol in 2015, has joined DAB+ for the very first time. After more than a decade showcasing underground dance music, the station will now join a large radio coverage area across Bristol as of August 24. The station, which was born out of a living room in Stoke’s Croft and has since taken shape across pubs and venues in Bristol before finding a permanent home at music venue Mickey Zoggs in 2021, will still continue to broadcast globally online. "Hearing Noods through radios in kitchens, cafés, workshops, shops and cars across Bristol will feel surreal," Noods Radio director Jack Machin says. "We’ve grown, but we’re still rooted in Stokes Croft and driven by the same curiosity and independence that we started with."
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Small-scale DAB multiplex launched in east Dorset
The small-scale DAB service for Verwood and the surrounding area in Dorset has gone live. The service is operated by Forest FM and launched shortly after the community radio station marked 20 years on air. Forest FM founder Steve Saville told RadioToday that the station applied to operate the multiplex to manage costs and protect its digital future.
The transmitter is based in Verwood and covers the northern tip of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole conurbation, where two small-scale DAB services have also launched in the last couple of years.
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WorldDAB members at IBC2026: Paneda
In the next of this year's series of short interviews with WorldDAB members exhibiting at IBC2026, Lars-Peder Lundgren, Marketing Director, Paneda says this year, it will focus on new emergency warning features, including a full demo of ASA, but also the unique Paneda EWS eco system. Paneda is an innovative partner in DAB technology and a world-leading supplier of DAB multiplexer head-end systems and break-in systems for road tunnels.
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