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Ofcom has today published a research paper investigating the potential of small-scale Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) transmissions using new lower-cost software defined radio technologies.

Pure has introduced the Evoke F4, an FM/DAB/Internet radio with integrated Bluetooth.

Poland’s public radio broadcaster Polskie Radio will join the digital movement October 1st, said president Andrzej Siezieniewski. Ten national channels and two local channels will be available on DAB+ multiplexes in Warsaw and Katowice. “Today the cost of (receivers) in Western Europe is about €80 to €100,” he said. “As the digitization process unfolds, in three or four years, these prices should be around PLN 100 (about €25).”

DAB represents 24 percent of all radio listening hours, reaching 18.4 million U.K. adults weekly. DAB listening hours have reached 246 million, and 45.7 percent of the population now has a DAB digital radio.

Listeners will be able to receive BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru as well as some commercial stations. At the end of August, new digital transmitters are expected to add a further 150,000 households in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire.

How is Vietnamese commune radio different from community radio? How many pirate stations are there in Thailand? What is Indonesia doing about digital radio? Today's RadioAsia conference report gives a perspective across the ASEAN region.

Rajar: The last three months have seen more than half of the UK's adult population listen to radio via digital platforms for the first time, as 28m tuned in.

A new marketing campaign featuring D Love was launched this week in the UK.

Digital listening – ie consumption of radio via a digital platform (including DAB, TV and online) – is up again, 16% year-on-year. 28 million people now listen to radio digitally, with 24 million apparently having access to a DAB digital radio receiver.

The New 2014 Audi RS7 comes with DAB as optional.