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While the television migration to digital is proceeding smoothly around the world, the picture is rather different for radio, says Rich Redmond.

Northern Ireland got a big digital radio boost when Arqiva launched 14 national digital radio stations on DAB on July 26.

Digital radio coverage has been extended to nearly a quarter of a million people in the Heads of the Valleys area of south Wales.The transmitters are part of wider plans by Digital Radio UK to bring digital radio to 400,000 extra homes in Wales over the summer.

In the bustling Vietnamese capital Hanoi this week, a team of Australian digital radio experts demonstrated DAB to local broadcasters, in a series of drive tests.

In an interview with Voice of Russia, Enrico della Rosa, a professional culture and audiovisual who now works for Radio France gives his view on the future of radio.

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Mr Nguyen Tan Dung opened the Radio Asia conference in Hanoi, Vietnam on Monday. To coincide with the conference, a test broadcast of DAB+ digital radio technology was organised on Saturday.

Mobile TV believes there is market demand for digital television and radio programming based on the Korean digital multimedia broadcasting standard it wants to launch in South Africa.

Now Digital’s request to extend the coverage area and change the frequency of its local DAB multiplex for Cardiff & Newport has been approved. The extended coverage area will include the Heads of the South Wales Valleys area and offer services which were previously available on the regional MXR multiplex, which closed yesterday.

UK LGBT radio station Gaydio has announced it will be going on DAB in Merseyside, North Wales and Cheshire for the rest of the summer.

Radio the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) Deputy Director Vu Hai has confirmed the local broadcasting industry is gradually replacing its outdated analogue methods, switching to modern digital technologies in line with Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB+) standards.