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Panjab Radio is expanding its DAB digital radio service to cover seven key areas with large Panjabi communities from midday on 2 June. Listeners in Derby, Royal Leamington Spa, Nottingham, Wolverhampton, Shropshire, Telford, Coventry and surrounding towns will now be able to hear the station on DAB. The move extends the station’s reach across central England and brings its 24/7 schedule of Panjabi music, news, faith and talk programmes to more households and businesses. Founder Surjit Singh Ghuman MBE said: “Expanding our DAB digital services to these key cities and towns means more families, businesses and individuals can rely on Panjab Radio for music, news and conversations that matter to them.”

Radio Ariston continues to grow and brings its voice to Pietra Ligure as well. The Sanremo broadcaster is now also available in DAB+ on channel 6D in the renowned tourist resort overlooking the Ligurian Sea. This is a new step in the broadcaster's ambitious expansion strategy, which aims at increasingly widespread coverage of the region. With this new installation, Radio Ariston extends its presence to neighbouring municipalities and the surrounding hilly areas, reaching almost 80% of the Ligurian territory. ‘We are happy to continue expanding our signal,’ comments Enzo Sangrigoli, station manager of the radio station. "Thanks to the MediaDAB consortium, of which we are members, we now broadcast to almost the entire region. In the near future we expect to activate new systems and reach the entire Ligurian territory."

On 24 June 2025, MDR will permanently switch off selected FM frequencies. This will happen in the early hours of the morning. As a modern multimedia house, MDR has digitised the entire production and distribution chain in recent years and made it fit for the future. Only FM broadcasting is still analogue. For many years, MDR's radio programmes have been broadcast in parallel in analogue and digital form in order to offer listeners a long-term opportunity to switch to digital radio reception. This parallel broadcasting of analogue FM and digital DAB+ is designed for a long-term, albeit limited, period. Starting early in the morning of June 24, 2025, selected low-power FM frequencies will no longer be receivable at 11 locations in Central Germany.

Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu reported that approximately 2.3 million people visited Çamlıca Tower, the highest point of Istanbul, in 4 years. Emphasising the importance of the tower for broadcasting, Minister Uraloğlu said, ‘Currently, 100 FM, 16 analogue terrestrial TV and 15 DAB+ broadcasts are actively carried out.’ Uraloğlu also reported that with the DAB+ launch, the number of broadcasters, which was initially 11, quickly reached 15. Uraloğlu said, “DAB+ technology offers a more stable spectrum structure and wider coverage area compared to FM systems; creating new opportunities.”

Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) Yogyakarta distributed 148 digital radios at the RRI Yogyakarta Auditorium on 28 May 2025. Receivers were distributed to the Yogyakarta Regional Government, municipalities and regencies throughout Yogyakarta, RRI Yogyakarta partners, and loyal RRI listeners. The distribution of receivers is an instruction from the Directorate of RRI in an effort to digitalise radio broadcasts. RRI Director of New Media Engineering (TMB) Muhammad Sujai explained that digital radio has been available at RRI in various regions. Most recently, digital radio procurement was carried out in Bengkulu, Gunungsitoli, and Yogyakarta in 2024. Sujai said there are a number of advantages that digital radio has.

The digitisation of terrestrial radio broadcasts in Indonesia is part of a larger agenda to transform the national broadcasting system. Radio digitisation is not just a service improvement, but also an important part of the emergency information and communication resilience infrastructure. This was expressed by Yogyakarta Regional Secretary Beny Suharsono at the RRI Auditorium on 28 May 2025. Beny added that with this initiative comes a shared hope to be the beginning of strengthening a sustainable digital broadcasting ecosystem. The DIY Regional Government is also ready to collaborate and support RRI's efforts, both in terms of equipment utilisation, information dissemination, and institutional and community capacity building.

Radio Horizon has started testing radio over DAB+ and is calling on listeners to share their experiences. Horizon is the public local broadcaster for Cranendonck, Heeze-Leende and Valkenswaard and would like feedback on the quality of reception. Listeners can share their experiences by sending an e-mail to secretariaat@rtvhorizon.nl. More and more cars are equipped with a DAB+ radio. With this pilot, it is now possible to enjoy the crystal-clear reception of Radio Horizon on the road in a large part of Southeast Brabant. From home to work somewhere in the region. On DAB+, Radio Horizon can be found on channel 5A (EINDHOVEN-KEMPEN) or by searching for ‘Horizon’.

Local DAB+ allotments are coming on air in more regions. The companies Broadcast Partners and Radio Netwerk Nederland - which have the same owner after the sale of RNN by Nico Silvius to Cellnex - are the transmitter operators of the local allotments. These allotments are commissioned by umbrella organisation of local broadcasters NLPO. A new local DAB+ allotment was put on air by Radio Netwerk Nederland in the Meppel area this week. Several local broadcasters and commercial radio station Hot Radio Classics can be heard on channel 11B. In the coming months, commercial broadcasters can try to secure a DAB+ broadcasting licence. First, 44 DAB+ licences for regional use will go under the hammer on 10 June.

Radio Proglas is preparing for a major technological change, which means the end of the era of FM broadcasting from two important transmitters - Ještěd and Žďár nad Sázavou. This move represents a historic milestone not only for the station itself, but also for the entire Czech radio market. In an interview with Digitalk, Martin Holík explains that the main motive is the shift to DAB+ digital broadcasting, which will enable the station to cover up to 80-95% of the country's territory, whereas FM transmitters only reached thirty to thirty-five percent. Proglas is thus responding to the overcrowding of the FM band and the impossibility of further expanding coverage via this route. ‘We are going in to save money and cover new territories,’ says Holík.

The Italian Communications Regulatory Authority has sent a report to the Government concerning a critical issue detected in the application of the Electronic Communications Code concerning the interoperability of car radio receivers and consumer radio receivers, which provides for the mandatory inclusion of a DAB+ receiver in new vehicles of categories M and N equipped with car radios, as from 2021. In its report to the Government, Agcom points out that it had conducted a survey to verify the evolution of the digital terrestrial radio broadcasting market. In the course of this survey, it emerged that in the automotive sector, the infotainment environment is today extremely competitive: radio publishers, content providers, streaming platforms and various broadcasting technologies such as FM, DAB+ and IP coexist.