25.09.2012
Global WorldDAB Member

Global Radio announces £15m investment in local DAB with Bauer

Ashley Tabor, founder and executive president of Global said: “This is an important development for this company and for the future of local digital radio. It is critical,” he added, “that as DAB grows, the investment in the local layer of DAB infrastructure matches the investment being made to the national layer.”

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25.09.2012

ANTENNE BAYERN auf DAB+ on air

ANTENNA BAVARIA is the most successful commercial radio program in Germany and on DAB +. The program will be broadcast on the national DAB multiplex 12D in Bavaria. After ROCK ANTENNA, ANTENNA BAVARIA Top 40 and BAVARIA BAVARIA info is the fourth program of the group, which will be broadcast on DAB +.

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25.09.2012
Global WorldDAB Member

Regional MXR digital multiplexes to close

Global Radio say their investment in the DAB platform continues with local and national services. They have just invested a total of £15m committing to providing their stations on more localised multiplexes owned by Bauer Media, for the next 12 years.

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25.09.2012

Loss-making station Planet Rock for sale

Four potential buyers have shown an interest, according to the report, in which Malcolm said: “Digital radio has come of age and Planet Rock is at the forefront of that. “I have put four and a half years of my life into this and £3m of my own money.

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25.09.2012

CNBC Africa commences trials on its Korean Digital Multimedia Broadcasting ...

He further added, “This MobileTV-CNBC Africa partnership is one of a sign of great things to follow, once we complete our technical trials on the DMB/DAB, DAB+ platform, conducted successfully for the past 18 months. With CNBC Africa coming aboard the MobileTV Love Train, we can only say - watch this space as we break news at short intervals.”

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25.09.2012
WorldDAB News

DAB+ Technology Workshop and Transmission Demonstration commences

Yesterday saw the start of a four day DAB+ Technology Workshop and Transmission Demonstration, in Jakarta, Indonesia. The event is jointly organised by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), Ministry for Communications and Technology, Radio Republic Indonesia (RRI), Commercial Radio Australia and WorldDMB.

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25.09.2012
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United States United States

Harris Expands Low-Power Transmission Options

Harris recently rolled out new transmitters, an electronic data interchange (EDI) module and the Intraplex IP Link 100 codec for large analog and digital radio transmission networks. The company has unveiled new Flexiva transmitter models (50, 150, 300 and 500 W), targeting international broadcasters deploying multiple low-power FM transmitters across a region or country. The company also revealed a new EDI product for Internet protocol-based distribution of content over multipoint digital audio broadcast (DAB) transmission networks, enabling targeted content delivery across large regions.

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24.09.2012

Digital Radio in Europe

In the context of the series 'Dialogue in Berlin: News Conferences LMS' on the 31st October, the event 'Digital Radio in Europe - A dividend on diversity of opinion and technical innovation' will take place at the French Embassy. Speakers will be the director of the Media Authority (LMS) and radio officer Dr. Gerd Bauer and Dr. Alfred Grinschgl (RTR), Will Schreiner (Digital Radio GmbH, Germany) and Nancy Wayland Bigler (OFCOM.

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21.09.2012

EtherWaves newly released DAB+/ DAB software receiver version for multicore Linux also supports TPEG

The new version of the Software Defined Radio (SDR) based ClearSignal supports novel services such as TPEG, DL+ and EPM, while executing across multi cores of Linux based GENIVI and Android architectures.

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21.09.2012

RMS marketer sees great opportunities through digital radio

The marketer RMS, who oversees almost all large German private radio stations, sees great potential in the digitization of radio. "Offer new digital distribution channels such as DAB + and internet radio companies and program makers great opportunities," said Florian Ruckert, Chairman of the RMS Management.

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