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ARN and Coles Express have partnered to launch personalised radio ads on broadcast radio. The initiative, which is viewed as the first of its kind, will be rolled out across all terrestrial broadcasting platforms, including DAB+.

The UK leads the way when it comes to community radio stations powered by small scale DAB and Angel Radio’s story on how small-scale DAB offers smaller local and community radio stations an affordable and achievable route to go on air is of great interest to broadcasters far beyond the UK.

Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) and SoundCloud announced an extension of their exclusive advertising partnership to bring SoundCloud Radio to the Australian market on 24 August via DAB+. This will enable brands to connect with SoundCloud’s audience via partnership opportunities and expanded ad sales inventory on DAB+ and online.

Pure, one of the world’s leading digital radio brands, has appointed Peter Ogley as its new CEO. Pure has a heritage of developing award-winning DAB radios.

Radio has played a tremendously important role since the outbreak of Covid-19. Despite the significant challenges faced by many broadcasters since the start of the pandemic, radio listening is peaking, new DAB+ services are being launched across Europe and the WorldDAB network continues to grow.

Nation Broadcasting is inviting existing commercial and new digital broadcasters to get in touch about broadcasting on all of the small scale DAB multiplexes being advertised by Ofcom next month. Any station interested in being a part of Nation Broadcasting’s plans for small scale DAB are encouraged to contact ash.elford@nationbroadcasting.com to register their interest.

Radio has played a tremendously important role since the outbreak of Covid-19. Despite the significant challenges faced by many broadcasters since the start of the pandemic, radio listening is peaking, new DAB+ services are being launched across Europe and the WorldDAB network continues to grow.

A new DAB+ marketing campaign has launched in Switzerland, where a digital switchover is set to take place by 2024. The campaign, which encourages listeners to purchase a DAB+ receiver, emphasises the quality offered by DAB+ digital radio.

In total, there were 400,000 more radio listeners in July 2020 than in the same month last year. NRK's radio channels experienced an increase of 206,000 listeners; the P4 group, on the other hand, had 142,000 more listeners than in July 2019, while the Bauer Media channels experienced an increase of 142,000 more listeners.

IZT has installed and successfully commissioned the first two of four Radio Direction Finders (RDF) for Eurocontrol. The IZT RDF, which are distributed over several locations, enable the Maastricht Upper Area Control Center to send important position information to air traffic controllers.