Newsroom

11.08.2014

United Kingdom

The true home of radio in the modern day is in vehicles, where 33m people listen per week. Over 60 per cent of cars still don’t have DAB radios fitted as standard, another key reason why they are yet to become the mainstream option. But change looks to be on the horizon in this department as major car companies such as Volkswagen have announced they will now fit all new cars with DAB radios.

07.08.2014

United Kingdom

Latest Ofcom Communications Market Report show Wales has experienced the largest increase in DAB radio set ownership over the past year, with 42% of households now owning at least one set, a 15 percentage point increase. This brings Wales into line with the UK average. Read the report in full.

06.08.2014

Arqiva WorldDAB Member, Global WorldDAB Member

United Kingdom

The last remaining MXR regional DAB multiplex is to close in ten months time, Ofcom has confirmed. Four other regional multiplexes operated by MXR have closed over the last couple of years, with no official confirmation on the future of the Yorkshire set-up. But the licence has not been renewed, meaning stations on the multiplex with either have to move to alternative local multiplexes, or fall silent before June 29th 2015.

05.08.2014

European Broadcasting Union (EBU) WorldDAB Member

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is to trial ‘visual radio’ at the Zurich 2014 European Athletics Championships. The slideshow can be delivered on platforms including DAB+ Slideshow, available on certain DAB car receivers, on hybrid radio (RadioVIS/RadioDNS) working with FM or digital radio, where receivers automatically download and display images as they are produced, and the web via a Javascript component.

03.08.2014

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) WorldDAB Member

United Kingdom

It hasn't exactly been a Rachmaninov v rock'n'roll battle to the death, but last week digital BBC Radio 6 Music snuck past sister analogue station Radio 3 for the first time in the quarterly Rajar audience figures.

01.08.2014

Germany

The Bayern Digital Radio GmbH has restructured the transmitter network in the channel 12D (Bavaria) and the local network in Ingolstadt. By reducing to 26 locations and simultaneously increasing the performance of 16 selected locations in the channel 12D penetration rate of digital radio in Bavaria has remained almost constant (88% road / 54% home / Source: BLM).

01.08.2014

Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG

Germany

Rohde & Schwarz will give a live demonstration of the R&S Tx9 transmitter generation at IBC 2014. The company says it will show how the Tx9 helps reduce the operating costs of transmitter networks, for FM, DAB and TV. This transmitter generation features energy efficiency, a compact design and redundancy concepts that can reduce costs by more than 70%

31.07.2014

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) WorldDAB Member

United Kingdom

Latest Q2 2014 report from RAJAR show that the digital listening is going from strength to strength. DAB remains the most popular platform for digital listening, with 237 million hours, up 1% year on year. DAB listening growth has been driven by the increase of DAB listening in-car.

31.07.2014

DAB Italia WorldDAB Member

Italy

Italian regulator AGCOM agree to proceed with the planning of new regional areas for T DAB +.

31.07.2014

United Kingdom

The latest figures from Rajar for Q2 2014 show that DAB radio is still the most popular device when it comes to listening digitally, accounting for 65% of all digital hours (24% of Total Hours).