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BBC not yet ready to abandon analogue radio
19.07.2012 - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) WorldDAB Member - United Kingdom United Kingdom
Tim Davie, BBC director of audio and music said: "We should be selling radios with DAB and FM [reception] so that they are future-proof", speaking at a digital radio conference in London.

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Pure Stream shuns wires, lets you stream tunes to your radio from your phone
19.07.2012 - Pure - United Kingdom United Kingdom
Pure 39's latest DAB radio comes with a little something extra: Pure Stream, so you can wirelessly play music from your smartphone. Launching alongside Pure Stream is the Pure Sensia 200D Connect, a touchscreen DAB radio with wireless pretensions.

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STMicroelectronics Leads the Move to Next-Generation Car Infotainment Systems
18.07.2012 - STMicroelectronics WorldDAB Member - Switzerland Switzerland
The chipset can receive and decode up to four channels in parallel, two for FM phase diversity and two for terrestrial digital broadcasting (e.g. DAB). With this feature, the car radio can receive audio content from one channel, while pulling real-time traffic and ...

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BBC defends Olympics staff numbers for London 2012
18.07.2012 - United Kingdom United Kingdom
Dave Gordon, BBC Sport's head of major events, told the Radio Times: "Don't forget, NBC is flying 2700 over from the USA. So we're pretty lean and mean. "I look on it .... 'Dark Knight Rises':

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Analysis of digital radio in Bavaria
18.07.2012 - Bayern Digital Radio GmbH - Germany Germany
The Bavarian Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting (BLM) has conducted in cooperation with Bavarian and national DAB radio operators in the analysis of Bavaria in 2012, a detailed study on the use of digital radio programs in Bavaria.

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IFA 2012 Preview
18.07.2012 - Germany Germany
Just six weeks before the start of the International Radio Exhibition the public interest in digital radio continues to grow. Nearly 500 journalists have obtained information on press events in Hamburg, Munich and Berlin about the main topics of the upcoming IFA. The latest devices are now shown at the IFA itself to a wide audience.

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EBU collaborates on successful DAB SFN master's thesis
17.07.2012 - European Broadcasting Union (EBU) WorldDAB Member - Switzerland Switzerland
An MSc student at EPFL Lausanne has developed a method of enabling Single Frequency Network (SFN) transmission using the free/open mmbTools DAB+ software-defined radio transmission set from the Communications Research Center Canada (CRC).

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CONTINENTAL AG : The New Car Radios from Continental Equipped with Powerful Software
17.07.2012 - Continental Automotive WorldDAB Member - Germany Germany
Continental is replacing conventional receiver technologies in car radios. Digital technology with powerful software creates new entertainment possibilities in the Continental Global Software Radio, and lowers costs thanks to streamlined hardware.

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BBC Radio: We won't force digital
16.07.2012 - United Kingdom United Kingdom
BBC's radio chief, Tim Davie, stated last week that all radio manufacturers should produce radios with FM and digital receivers. “I don't think switchover is about forcing people to do what they do not want to do.

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BBC Radio stays with analogue
16.07.2012 - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) WorldDAB Member - United Kingdom United Kingdom
The UK government is due to make next year as to whether to set a date for a full adoption of digital radio. Currently about 29 per cent of all listening is through a mix of DAB, on-line or digital TV access.

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