31 January 2019 Europe has mandated that all new cars sold within the EU will now be required to have digital radios. Car manufacturers have two years to...
14 November 2018 The European Parliament in its Plenary session voted to adopt the new European Electronic Communications Code. This Directive will require all new car radios...
30 October 2018 WorldDAB's latest market report reveals that, by the end of Q2 2018, over 71 million consumer and automotive DAB/DAB+ receivers had been sold in Europe and Asia...
17 October 2018 WorldDAB, the association which promotes DAB digital radio around the world, has announced the roll-out of a new DAB+ logo for international markets. ...
5 August 2018 A DAB+ workshop held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia last week saw a diverse mix of countries working together to take the next steps in establishing DAB+...
1 August 2018 WorldDAB has created a new Working Group, focused on the performance and user experience of aftermarket devices for DAB+ in the car. The Aftermarket...
6 July 2018 Digital radio broadcasting in Russia may begin in the next two to four years, according to a Radio 1 correspondent who spoke to the vice-president...
21 April 2018 The Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, Nikolai Nikiforov, held a meeting on 17 April in Moscow with the State...
18 March 2018 Norway is the only country in the world to have implemented a fully digitised national Digital Audio Broadcasting system and to shut down national broadcasts...
13 March 2018 Nine new organisations have joined WorldDAB since the start of 2018, taking its membership to 104 organisations from 29 countries, including over 1,200 experts from...
11 March 2018 At ABU DBS 2018, the WorldDAB workshop broke attendance records, with 150 delegates from across the region joining speakers to hear the latest digital...
5 March 2018 Broadcasters from around the world gathered in Kuala Lumpur on Monday to up-skill on digital radio best practice at a WorldDAB-sponsored workshop titled DAB+...
4 February 2018 WorldDAB has announced the line-up of speakers and sessions for its popular DAB+ Digital Radio Workshop, taking place in Kuala Lumpur on March 5 at...
30 December 2017 Patrick Hannon and Joan Warner look ahead to 2018 and the items on their DAB wish-list. While 2017 might have been the...
10 December 2017 Article by Joan Warner, CEO of Commercial Radio Australia, with a call to action for ASEAN countries to work on a coordinated spectrum...
12 October 2017 Patrick Hannon, President, WorldDAB “Why invest in DAB when we can just use mobile networks for radio?” The DAB or mobile networks argument...
30 August 2017 Delegates attending a two-day DAB+ demo and workshop in Amman Jordan, co-organised by WorldDAB and Arab States Broadcasting Union (SBU), and hosted by Jordan...
26 July 2017 WorldDAB, in partnership with the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) and Asia-Pacific Institute of Broadcasting Development (AIBD) hosted a DAB+ workshop in...
23 March 2017 Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) plans to launch digital radio in 2018 and states that guidelines should be finalised before the start...
12 March 2017 Radio Republik Indonesia has a big task, to cover the country's 18,000 islands and 255 million people with radio and new media services. Andi Permadi,...
11 March 2017 The radio world has been watching Norway to see if its bold experiement to switch off Analog FM radio and replace it with DAB+ digital...
7 March 2017 Over 140 industry professionals from 20 different countries joined the DAB+ workshop at ABU DBS this year, discussing the progress of DAB+ in the...
7 March 2017 In the first session of this year’s Digital Broadcasting Summit in Malaysia, the ABU’s Secretary General Javad Mottaghi told delegates, “broadcasters must commit to a...
1 February 2017 The DAB technical standard has been updated, identifying obsolete features, clarifying the description of features to aid interoperability and updating other specific features. The revised...
27 May 2016 Hong Kong’s Communications Authority (CA) has rejected Metro Broadcast Corporation Limited’s application for lifting the time limit imposed on its simulcast of FM service...
11 May 2016 Government Ministries, car manufacturers and the radio industry today gathered in Brussels on Wednesday at WorldDAB's 'Drive to Digital - Europe' event to push for further...
10 May 2016 Last month, we posted an article by Australian expat and media researcher, John Patkin, now based in Hong Kong, who argued that AM/FM and DAB+ would become obsolete...
11 April 2016 The state radio network of Indonesia, Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI LPP), launched DAB + last week in the form of studio media convergence, media...
10 April 2016 You probably won't find a 3.5 mm audio socket in the next iPhone as Apple wants to slim down its revolutionary communicator. It's another nail...
7 April 2016 The Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Consortium, and the German DRM Platform held a comprehensive European workshop in Erlangen, Germany from April 6 to 7....
