Newsroom

02.09.2019

Australia

The new Actros truck released by Mercedes-Benz includes a number of new features, including a customisable multimedia cockpit, a new MirrorCam digital mirror setup, and DAB digital radio.

30.08.2019

Italy

Public broadcaster RAS has proposed a 3-year plan to switch off FM. Since 2017 South Tyrol has already shut down 41 FM transmitters and now proposes to switch off a further 67. Two factors are driving the FM switch off - huge transmission cost savings to stop investing in an old technology.

30.08.2019

Austria

The share of DAB+ devices in the radio receiver market already exceeded 32% in the first quarter of 2019. There are currently nine radio stations on the national DAB+ mux, with strong interest from more private broadcasters to broadcast via DAB+.

30.08.2019

Switzerland

A final decision will be taken on which scenario will be adopted by 2021. The first scenario is that there will be an FM shutdown in 2022/2023, with the public broadcaster SRG turning off its FM stations in the second half of 2022, and the private radio stations in early 2023. The second option provides that FM would be switched off by the end of 2024, as stated in the DigiMig report, with all radios switching off FM at the same time.

29.08.2019

Switzerland

Radio programs in Switzerland will only be available via FM until the end of 2024 according to Bernard Maissen, OFCOM's deputy director, on the occasion of the Swiss Radio Day in Zurich. As at end June 2019, only 17% of listeners use FM on an exclusive basis.

29.08.2019

United Kingdom

BBC Radio 2 will celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ Abbey Road album with Radio 2 Beatles, a four-day pop-up DAB radio station. Radio 2 Beatles follows other pop up DAB’s from the station, including Radio 2 Eurovision (2014 and 2015) and Radio 2 Country (2015, 2016 and 2017).

29.08.2019

AVT Audio Video Technologies GmbH WorldDAB Member

Netherlands

In this series of interviews on WorldDAB members exhibiting at IBC, Wolfgang Peters of AVT explains how he sees the digital radio industry evolving in the coming years, and tells us about the DAB+ products AVT will showcase at this year’s event.

28.08.2019

Global WorldDAB Member

United Kingdom

UK's largest commercial radio group Global is transforming its Heart 90s playlist *service* into a full national radio station on DAB+. It is the first of five new services all going national on DAB - all brand extensions to Global's current services.

28.08.2019

Australia

CEO Grant Blackley advised that the SCA strategy of keeping advertisers locked in by offering access to the SCA "digital stack" combining FM and DAB+ audiences. He also announced SCA will shortly launch two new DAB+ radio brands.

27.08.2019

Slovenia

Slovenian telecoms and media regulator AKOS has launched a public consultation on a second national DAB+ network, and will hold a public meeting at AKOS offices on 12 September. Licences for the remaining spaces on the R1 national multiplex were greatly oversubscribed.