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VDL (Lyon, France) have supplied their all-in-one Multiplexer D-VAUDAX to most of Germany’s ARD consortium of public broadcasters as part of regional deployment of DAB+ networks.

The Wireless is a service for the over 50s and has been online since May, but will join a couple of DAB multiplexes providing “a mix of music, entertainment and information to improve later life in the UK”.

During the gathering attendees were able to obtain information on the technical basis, the new digital radio transmitter network and the potential of the new service.

MEDIA BROADCAST is the second stage of the national digital radio broadcasting network in the channel 5C is implemented as planned with the commissioning of the last five transmitter sites. This gave MEDIA BROADCAST known on the edge of the IFA. It started in August 2011 with 27 stations network national distribution of digital radio has been so extended in 2012 at a total of 19 locations. With the completion of this network expansion stage, the number of residents who can enjoy digital radio at home, over 43 million people. The area for the mobile service, that is to receive the car rises, throughout Germany to over 50 percent in Germany. This includes nearly 70 percent of the German autobahns.

DAB with nostalgia factor: Philips has modern audio technology has packed into the shell of a retro radio. The ORD7300 is modeled after a Philetta 255 from 1955, but inside lies a digital radio receiver. In addition, a docking station for iPhone and iPod is available.

DiBcom, a business unit of Parrot, is pleased to announce a new circuit dedicated to head units, leading to a new stage of Mobile TV and Digital Radio integration into Automobiles.

Frontier Silicon, the leading supplier of Digital Radio and Network Audio technology, has announcesd the launch of its new DAB 5.0 Software Development Kit (SDK).

Digital radio can be newly tuned in central and eastern Bohemia.

Garmin is teaming with Inrix to provide up-to-the-minute traffic information across the DAB (Digital Audio Broadcast) network in the U.K.

The SwissMediaCast AG have selected VDL (Lyon, France) and Sumatronic AG (Unterägeri, Switzerland) to provide their equipment, installation and service for DAB + encoding and multiplexing head-end systems.