Newsroom

30.03.2015

France

Combining both analogue and digital radio stations, the number of stations in Dijon could increase from twenty-eight to more than fifty.

30.03.2015

United Kingdom

A new country music radio station, will launch ‘this Spring’ according to owners Bauer Media. Downtown Country, a spin-off to Downtown Radio in Belfast, will be on DAB and online, 24 hours a day with American and Irish country singers.

30.03.2015

Pure

United Kingdom

Pure’s Pop family of digital radios has been awarded the prestigious Red Dot Award for product design. The Pop family, which is made up of three digital radios, is designed to reinvent digital radio and is based on insights from extensive research with radio listeners.

30.03.2015

Netherlands

This week, Digital Radio+ launched their spring campaign on national radio reminding of the benefits of digital radio. This year various activities organised to increase awareness of DAB+ include a presentation to the automotive industry at AutoRai and television commercials on various channels.

27.03.2015

Netherlands

Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, Henk Kamp made a commitment to the deployment of DAB+ in the Netherlands in response to questions during Parliament. “I have no doubts about digital radio, it is the way forward. Digital radio is much more attractive than analogue radio: the sound quality is better and it is much more spectrum efficient. We will definitely go over to digital radio.”

27.03.2015

Arqiva WorldDAB Member

United Kingdom

Virgin Radio is to return to the UK airwaves, along with three spin-off TalkSport stations and a host of new nationwide broadcasters as part of a new wave of digital radio stations. The rock and pop music brand owned by Richard Branson is one of 14 stations that will launch on Sound Digital, the second national commercial digital platform licensed by media regulator Ofcom on Friday.

27.03.2015

Arqiva WorldDAB Member

United Kingdom

Ofcom release report of how the decision was made to award UK's new national digital radio multiplex to Sound Digital, a consortium of Arqiva, Bauer and UTV Media GB.

27.03.2015

United Kingdom

Ofcom today announced the UK's new national digital radio multiplex will be run by Sound Digital, a consortium of Arqiva, Bauer and UTV Media GB. Digital radio listeners will benefit from a choice of new national Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) radio stations, expected to launch in March next year.

27.03.2015

Arqiva WorldDAB Member

United Kingdom

Sound Digital won the two horse race for D2 because of its technical plan, confirmed station line-up and ability to cross promote DAB on analogue radio. In reaction to the news, Ford Ennals, CEO of Digital Radio UK, said: “The award of the second national commercial DAB network to Sound Digital is a defining moment for digital radio and an unprecedented expansion, which will more than double the number of national commercial stations on DAB. Nearly 50% of UK households already have a digital radio, and over 60% of new car registrations have digital radio as standard, so if you don’t have digital radio at home or in your car, the time is now.”

27.03.2015

Arqiva WorldDAB Member

United Kingdom

The second national commercial radio DAB multiplex has been awarded to Sound Digital – a consortium of Arqiva, Bauer Media and UTV Media. It means new services such as talkRADIO, Virgin Radio and Magic Mellow will start broadcasting soon, whilst existing stations heat, Jazz FM and Kisstory will go national. The multiplex will launch within 12 months and will spend £15m promoting DAB over the first six years.