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Voice of Vietnam (VOV) Deputy Director Vu Hai has confirmed the local broadcasting industry is gradually replacing its outdated analogue methods, switching to modern digital technologies in line with Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB+) standards.

More local multiplexes are being launched and existing ones extended to make up for the loss of regional slots, using frequencies previously used by MXR.

The switch-on of six new DAB radio transmitters means that 1.4million listeners will have a wide variety of radio stations to listen to from rock and pop to religious and sport stations.

Fourteen years after launching in England, Scotland and Wales, Digital One has arrived in Northern Ireland bringing 10 extra radio stations to the area. The Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure, Carál Ní Chuilín, together with music star Dana, switched on the signal at the Ulster Hall in Belfast, with live music performances sponsored by Absolute Radio and Smooth Radio.