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SIRTI welcomed the announcement from the CSA on their new public consultation on the deployment of Digital Terrestrial Radio in France. "These new areas...will allow us to cross the threshold of 20% of the population covered by RNT, which will ensure the rapid spread of RNT in France."

Deutschland radio and network operator Media Broadcast have announced a expansion of their digital radio network which will start this year. The network is planned to be expanded from 61 transmitter sites to 82.

The station will launch on 27th June 2015, and will be available across the Greater London area, reaching a potential 11.7 million listeners. Mi-Soul's music output features the past, present and future of soulful music, including House, R&B, Rap, Reggae or Soul itself, stretching over the last 4 decades.

This new DAB modulator supports simultaneous streaming of multiple ensembles, allowing for a direct link between the IZT DAB Content Server and the IZT S1000 with the EDI protocol.

Areas under consideration are Nantes, Lyon, Strasbourg, Lille, Bethune-Douai-Lens, Valenciennes, Mulhouse, Metz, Nancy, Bayonne, Le Havre, Brest, Grenoble, Bordeaux, Toulouse Rennes, Clermont-Ferrand, Montpellier and Toulon Rouen.

This month, French regulator CSA will launch a public consultation into the deployment of DAB+ in the metropolitan areas of France. Areas under consideration are Nantes, Lyon, Strasbourg, Lille, Bethune-Douai-Lens, Valenciennes, Mulhouse, Metz, Nancy, Bayonne, Le Havre, Brest, Grenoble, Bordeaux, Toulouse Rennes, Clermont-Ferrand, Montpellier and Toulon Rouen.

In a digital radio survey by TNS Gallup, it was found that although the majority of radio listeners surveyed had better access to analogue radios, it is digital listening that prevails.

The Free Sender Kombinat (FSK) and the Hamburg Local Radio (HLR) stations will go digital from 17 June 2015.

Paneda will shortly introduce a number of new DAB related products on the international market, including a complete new and unique DAB head-end system with its related peripheral components.

To improve it's national digital radio coverage, Deutshland Radio has increased its national multiplex transmission capacity from 288 to 396 units and the error protection to 3/8 instead of 1/2.