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BDR at Medientage München 2011
19.10.2011 - Bayern Digital Radio GmbH - Germany
The BDR will be Munich Media Days 2011 to show digital radio in all its breadth and diversity. Visitors can experience the 30 different receivers listen in more than 40 digital radio programs and test services such as current service Journaline and live broadcasts.
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DAB radio as standard rises 340%
19.10.2011 - United Kingdom
Tim Davie, the BBC's director of audio and music said that intention was to get digital radio up to the same level of coverage as FM radio by 2015, including all of the motorway network. DAB radio as standard rises 340 %
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Industry drives 184% increase of in-car digital radio
19.10.2011 - United Kingdom
The UK new car market has seen a 184% increase in the standard fitment of digital radio in the first nine months of 2011 compared to the same period in 2010. The latest data from Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and CAP was revealed as SMMT ...
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BBC still committed to DAB roll out
19.10.2011 - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) WorldDAB Member - United Kingdom
The BBC has confirmed it will plough ahead with plans to roll out the digital radio network to 97% of the UK despite the Corporation's tight finances. DAB currently reaches 90% of the country. Under the Beeb's plans every town with a population of over ...
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More work needs to be done on DAB, says Vaizey
19.10.2011 - United Kingdom
More than 14 million digital radio sets have been sold in the UK and the medium currently accounts for more than a quarter of all radio listening. Vaizey said the industry was on course to hits its 50% target by the end of 2013 – with Government set to ...
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BBC to fund DAB rollout to 97% of UK population
19.10.2011 - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) WorldDAB Member - United Kingdom
The BBC has confirmed that it will pay for the rollout of the UK's digital audio broadcasting (DAB) radio infrastructure to reach 97% of the population. Tim Davie, the corporation's director of audio and music, said that the BBC would fund the ...
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Regional reception for digital radio
18.10.2011 - Australia
A report that will assist with the rollout of digital radio in regional Australia has been published. According to the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, the findings of the Review of Technologies ...
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Absolute Radio to launch 60s and 70s stations
18.10.2011 - United Kingdom
The 60s station will be broadcast to over a third of the UK population through DAB (including London, Bradford and Liverpool) and will be available through Radioplayer, the Absolute Radio 60s website and Absolute's smartphone apps. ...
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Media Council approved nationwide radio services in DAB+-Standard DAB + standard
18.10.2011 - Germany
The Media Council of the Bavarian Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting (BLM) in its meeting on 13 October 2011, approved the nationwide distribution of five Radio programs in the DAB + standard for the next eight years.
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CRA chairman Cathy O'Connor: Internet radio poses no threat
14.10.2011 - Commercial Radio & Audio WorldDAB Member - Australia
O'Connor cited radio listening data that, she claimed, shows that listening to broadcast digital radio already outstrips internet radio listening by nearly three to one after just two years on air. However, as Mumbrella has previously reported, ...
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