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Alan Cross: The future is being written for listening to the radio in cars

30.06.2025 - WorldDAB News - European Broadcasting Union (EBU) WorldDAB Member

When I travel, I like to rent vehicles from different manufacturers to see what they’re doing infotainment-wise. On more than one occasion, I’ve become frustrated when it comes to finding the radio functions. Why would anyone bury a radio, something that’s been part of the driving experience for almost 100 years, so deep in the interface that you can’t use it? The good news is that there’s plenty of pushback. At the WorldDAB Automotive 2025 Conference in Madrid, public and private broadcasters — some 200 senior executives — from all over the world got together to deliver this message: Broadcast radio must remain prominent in vehicles. If not, motorists will miss out on a lot — and radio itself could fatally suffer from underexposure.

(Alan Cross, Global News Canada) Read more