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Products of the year
02.01.2013 - JVCKENWOOD Corporation WorldDAB Member - United Kingdom United Kingdom
Throughout the year, we get plenty of kit fitted in our cars. It often has to make way for something else – but this double-DIN Kenwood head unit isn’t going anywhere. The main reason is that it looks factory-fitted: it’s seamlessly integrated into our Octavia’s dash, where it displays the Skoda logo on start-up. We use it all the time, usually switching between iPod output and the impressive DAB digital radio. It also plays music from a Micro SD card, as well as incorporating Garmin sat-nav and faultless hands-free phone calls. Plus, you can add a reversing camera for £119.

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New Year Honours list recognises UK tech visionaries
29.12.2012 - United Kingdom United Kingdom
Sir Hossein Yassaie knighted "for services to technology and innovation"

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New Year Honours list recognises UK tech visionaries
29.12.2012 - Imagination Technologies - United Kingdom United Kingdom
Video games legend Ian Livingstone, Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox and Imagination Technologies' boss Hossein Yassaie all feature in the New Year Honours List.

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Local DAB mux switched-on in Trento
22.12.2012 - Italy Italy
DBTAA “Digital Broadcasting Trentino Alto Adige scarl” is the Trento first of new local DAB multiplexes that will be launched in the next year. DBTAA consortium is made by 11 local FM radio and they “on air” in Trento city since December 21st. DAB+ channel 10A In Trento 26 the available programs for Christmas: 7 from the National Public Service Mux of RAI, 8 are from the national commercial radio DAB+ MUX on channel 12C of Club DAB Italia scrl and 11 of the local MUX of DBTAA, all of them are simulcast programs, so far, enriched with DLS and SLS innovative functions. Very soon all broadcasting consortiums having the get the rights will extend and harmonize digital radio transmission to cover the full region of Trentino Alto Adige where RAS and DABMedia where on air in Bolzano province since years now.

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Digital radio gaining popularity in the Netherlands
20.12.2012 - Netherlands Netherlands
More people are expected to listen to the radio digitally in the coming years, not only from the PC, laptop, smartphone or tablet but also in the car. Public and commercial radio stations plan to rollout ether next year, via DAB+.

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National digital radio is growing in 2013
19.12.2012 - Germany Germany
The national network for digital radio will be completed in 2013 with new locations. As Dr. Chris Weck (Radio Germany) and Thomas Guard (Media Broadcast) announced in the recent interview with INFOSAT, six new stations extend the distribution range in the channel 5C in the upcoming year. The following locations are planned: Geislingen, Würzburg, Wendelstein, Chemnitz-Geyer, Minden and Gelnhausen. "Our goal is very clear, in the long term by FM Digital Radio will replace, the analog broadcast over FM" said Dr. Weck.

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Programme Radiodays Europe March 17-19, 2013 at BCC in Berlin released
19.12.2012 - Germany Germany
The conference will have a wide range of radio and media topics and with a total of 50 sessions over two full days on the 18th and 19th of March 2013. There will also be some additional conference opportunities on Sunday 17th that we will tell you more about in January. The entire programme will be ready, and will be published on this page, by the end of January.

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Gibraltar Turns on DAB Multiplexes
19.12.2012 - Gibraltar Gibraltar
The new network comprises two DAB radio multiplexes, each capable of carrying four radio programs, along with two digital television multiplexes.

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Rock Antenne gets higher data rate in DAB +
13.12.2012 - Germany Germany
The Media Council of the Bavarian Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting (BLM) has approved to increase the data rate of the program Rock Antenne in DAB + from 54 to 60 CU. The approval is valid until 31.10.2019.

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Land Rover Freelander 2 Black and White edition
13.12.2012 - United Kingdom United Kingdom
Starting from £22,495, the Black and White Limited Edition is £1,205 cheaper than the model it’s based on. It takes the S variant – which comes with a start button and an eight-speaker stereo with DAB as standard – and adds LED running lights and a gloss black grille, side vents and door handles.

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