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SCA chief sales officer, Brian Gallagher says: “Listeners are embracing digital radio with the latest figures showing a 24% increase in DAB+ digital radios (3.8m devices) in Australia in the past 12 months. It’s time to start talking about our digital audiences in the same breadth as the rest of our stations. “Measuring an aggregated analogue and digital audience means we are giving our clients the ability to access more reach than ever before with an additional 360,000 listeners. And SCA is able to monetise all of our stations, be they FM or digital.”

According to Wolfgang Struber of the Digital Radio Austria Association, the analog-terrestrial possibilities in the radio sector (FM) are qualitatively and quantitatively limited by the regulated market and the free access for the listeners. "That's why digital terrestrial is the way to bring radio into the digital future, complemented by the possibilities of the 5G standard, ie an unregulated market with restricted access for listeners," says Struber.

According to Professor Mateo Burgos García of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, there are three major points to explain why digital terrestrial radio is not definitively promoted in Spain, also known as the DAB, or its evolution the DAB+.

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"The N-VA remains convinced that DAB+, certainly in the long term, will solve a lot of capacity problems," according to the Flemish representative Wilfried Vandaele of the N-VA party in Belgium. "After allocation, there is room for twelve extra private radio channels on DAB+."

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The National Authority for Communications Administration and Regulation (ANCOM) announced on Tuesday it is launching a public consultation to probe market interest in the allocation of spectrum available from the VHF and UHF band for DAB services in Romania, which they say provides superior sound quality and enables more efficient use of radio spectrum.

Nine new organisations have joined WorldDAB since the start of 2018, taking its membership to 104 organisations from 29 countries, including over 1,200 experts from broadcasters, regulators and network providers through to manufacturers of receivers, chips, professional equipment and automobiles.

The combined FM and digital audiences of the Hit Network and Triple M, deliver an unduplicated reach of 5,120,000. This represents an additional 360,000 listeners or an increase of 7.6% over just the analogue outlets alone. “It’s time to start talking about our digital audiences in the same breath as the rest of our stations.” says Brian Gallagher, Chief Sales Officer of SCA.