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Today Mediamobile announced the signing of a new partnership agreement with TomTom, one of the world’s leading suppliers of navigation products and services. Under the agreement, TomTom will provide the company’s highly accurate traffic content to Mediamobile, and thus contribute to the first nationwide traffic service to be broadcast over Germany’s digital radio network: Mediamobile’s V-Traffic Premium DAB.

Willi Schreiner, the Managing Director of Deutschland Radio spoke of a goal to end analogue radio distribution by 2018 in an interview with Text Internal. Such a date would create the necessary planning security for industry, trade and broadcasters.

Glasgow-based Eklipse Sports Radio is to launch on the Central Scotland DAB multiplex later this summer. The station, led by former broadcaster Spencer Pryor, will offer a Sports Talk format with sports news, chat, commentaries, phone-ins and rock music.

The UK government is touting its recent digital radio test as a success, saying listeners who are in a good coverage area love digital radio, according to Radio Today.

The Government has hailed a digital DAB radio test in Bath as a success, with many of the local residents taking part saying that they love digital radio.

Real-time traffic information supplier Mediamobile yesterday announced a partnership with TomTom where the traffic content of the Dutch company will be used as a data source for the newly launched Mediamobile’s German digital radio traffic service (V-Traffic Premium DAB).

Volvo's new models now come equipped with DAB as standard in the UK from June

Today the UK Government released the results of an investigation into the impact of converting homes to digital radio. The results have shown that listeners who are in good coverage love digital radio.

If you';re going to write about digital radio, you'd better get your facts right or Joan Warner, who is both CEO of Commercial Radio Australia and WorldDMB Asia Pacific Chair, will set you straight.

Digital radio broadcast chips could be fitted into mobile phones by 2015, according to Sir Hossein Yassaie, chief executive of Imagination Technologies, parent company of consumer electronics brand Pure. Speaking at this year’s Intellect Consumer Electronics Conference, Sir Hossein, whose company specialises in mobile graphics and chip technology, said: “Within a couple of years, the cost of a digital radio chip – as an additional component to other devices – will be sub-two dollars, so don’t be surprised if you see it in in mobile phones.”