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Come the new year, the radio industry will be generating its audience figures with audience measuring company GfK, after 66 years with research company Nielson.

The German winter cross media campaign for digital radio has been launched by Initiative Digitalradio Deutschland. The planners rely on fancy display texts and humorous online spots that illustrate emotions , digital radio and its everyday and future viability. Promotional activities that include advertorials, online banners and so-called webisodes will run throughout the Christmas season into the new year.

The European Broadcasting Union has formed the Strategic Program on Digital Radio Platforms. The group’s chair Javier Sánchez Perez announced a technical recommendation at the Digital Radio Summit in Geneva.

New digital transmitters in Herefordshire and Worcestershire means BBC Hereford & Worcester, Free Radio and Sunshine Radio join the DAB line-up. The new multiplex was officially switched-on this morning.

Emitel has defeated competitor Polskie Sieci Nadawcze i Bcast, and will provide the transmission of terrestrial digital signals of Polish Radio in Warsaw, Katowice and Silesian agglomeration from 2014 for three years, reports Rpkom.pl.

In the German-speaking part of Switzerland, two new regional DAB+ networks were switched on by Swiss operator Media Cast.

Here's a perfectly fair question to ask about portable radios: why would you spend $100 or more on a digital when the analog equivalent is one-quarter the cost?

The new Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) radio transmitters, which will serve Herefordshire and Worcestershire, will be turned on by West Worcestershire MP Harriett Baldwin and former Worcester Warriors stalwart Craig Gillies during a ceremony on Friday.

The level of features that the AVIC-F950DABpacks in and the quality of the hardware and the interface helps to make its one of the best aftermarket in-car AV system we’ve used.

A new era for radio listeners will be ushered in this week when a new digital network is switched on. West Worcestershire MP Harriett Baldwin is expected to switch on the new digital transmitters during the official ceremony at the Sixways Stadium on Friday, ...