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The car makers’ efforts in this area are critical, because 20 per cent of all radio listening takes place in cars. The industry has already made giant strides. Three years ago, just four per cent of new cars came fitted with DAB. In the first three months of this year that figure had leapt to 35 per cent, with a further 25 per cent having it as a cost option.

Mediamobile proudly presents V-Traffic Premium DAB - the first German national traffic and travel service on DAB+ digital radio, using the TPEG protocol. V-Traffic’s DAB+ network in Germany offers a broadcast capacity more than 400 times higher than existing RDS-TMC services.

After the loss of audio exploitation rights to the games of the first and second Bundesliga to Netcast for the next four seasons, Regiocast is now examining business models for more economic operation.

On 14 May 2013, around 80 representatives of the Swiss automotive industry, the Federal Office of Communications OFCOM, the Federal Roads Office FEDRO, SRG SSR, SwissMediaCast, Romandie Médias, the German Fraunhofer research organisation and ARD, met in Zurich at the invitation of MCDT to discuss DAB+ car radio.

The new Yamaha RX-V500D a 5.1-channel network AV receiver is equipped with a DAB / DAB + tuner for digital broadcast.

Key players from the automotive industry gave a positive response on the future of digital radio solutions for the car industry during the 5th WorldDMB European Automotive conference, 16 May 2013 in Hamburg, Germany.

NDR is searching for test listeners to feed back on their digital radio experiences.

The Pearl Company has expanded its range of digital radio receivers again.

DAB radio is the most popular source, accounting for 66 percent of the hours, followed by online sources at 14.6 percent and DTV at 14.5 percent.

DAB is the dominant platform, says Digital Radio UK, representing 22.5 percent of all radio listening hours, up from 19.1 percent in Q1 2012. DAB now reaches 16.8 million U.K. adults on a weekly basis, up 12 percent from 15 million year over year.