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Around 55,000 delegates from 170 countries will be attending the IBC2017 conference and exhibition in Amsterdam from 14 to 19 September. WorldDAB will be presenting the Advances in Technology session entitled “DAB at the Core of Radio’s Digital Transformation”. The session will look at progress on Norway’s ongoing switch from FM to DAB+, the evolving business case for DAB+ for broadcasters, DAB+ for data and EU receiver legislation.

Roberts has teamed up with Scion to present special limited edition fox and hedgehog (aka ‘spike’) designs of the RD70 radio. The 50's style Roberts x Scion Revival RD70 DAB has DAB and FM, along with a colour display, Bluetooth streaming, dual alarm functionality and a sleep/snooze function.

RadioDNS has reached a significant milestone with Audi becoming the first automotive manufacturer to adopt their service. The open standards of RadioDNS will be part of Audi’s new line-fit hybrid radio platform in the A8. RadioDNS offers a single intelligent station list which always picks the best way to receive a station, removing the need for the driver to decide between FM, DAB or streaming.

A report on digital radio in Germany presented at the IFA show in Berlin shows more people with access to DAB+ receiving devices; 15.1% of households up from 12.6% one year on.The report calculated that about 2.5 million Germans listen daily to a DAB+ channel, on average about 29 minutes per day.

DAB+ is expanding in Germany. The number of Germans with a DAB+ radio has grown to over 11 million, and on average 2.5 million people listen to the service each day, according to a survey from Media Broadcast and radio broadcasters and associations. The study was presented at the IFA show in Berlin.

Digital Radio UK's radio industry conference, Drive to Digital, will take place at the British Museum on 26 September from 1pm until 6 pm. Chris Chabot, technical evangelist at Amazon, and Paul Rodgers, Head of BBC 6 Music, join the line-up for the event.

European digital radio markets came together recently to announce support for the newly published ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) Euro standard for DAB digital radio. This standard has been agreed to as the minimum specification for DAB digital radio receivers across Europe and is supported by WorldDAB and the European Broadcasting Union, as well as broadcasters and manufacturers in Germany, the UK, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy.

Audi has announced that they will be the first automotive manufacturer to adopt RadioDNS’ open and interoperable standards for their new line-fit hybrid radio platform. Launching initially in the new Audi A8 in Europe in Autumn 2017, RadioDNS functionality will be available over time in other Audi models and other regions, and in Porsche and VW cars.

European digital radio markets came together today to announce support for the newly published ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) Euro standard for DAB digital radio. This standard is supported by WorldDAB and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), as well as broadcasters and manufacturers in Germany, the UK, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy.

The second wave of the four-language publicity campaign for the DAB+ radio standard has begun in Switzerland. The campaign is supported by the public radio SRG and private radio channels, as well as the manufacturer Pure and retail partners Melectronics and Eigitec.