Digital Radio

A special switch-on event has taken place in Telford on Wednesday morning to switch on new DAB transmitters in Wolverhampton & Shropshire.

It will provide the means for a huge expansion of local and community stations on DAB, marking an historic day for UK radio.

Fix Radio, the new London DAB station aimed at tradespeople, has been launched by Charlie Mullins, the world's richest plumber.

A new digital radio station has launched today allowing users to create and upload their own radio programmes.

The radio station featured in BBC 1 comedy Car Share has been brought to life by Steve Penk.

The expansion of digital radio coverage means that many listeners can now receive six further radio stations.

The station will launch at 7am on Wednesday 26th April and will give away 20,000 bacon butties over the first 40 days of broadcasting.

Newly confirmed to speak at the event are Caroline Martin, lunchtime host of BBC West Midlands and Amy Southall, Midlands Officer, Student Radio Association.

There are now three national DAB multiplexes and 53 local DAB multiplexes across the UK.

New figures have been released from WorldDAB showing over 50 million DAB Digital Radio receivers have now been sold.

The team behind MKFM is launching two new radio stations later this year.

One of BBC Radio 2's annual pop-up stations is coming back on March 9th for four days.

Forces radio station BFBS will come off the national digital radio multiplex Digital One in March after carrying out analysis over the costs.

Glasgow’s digital radio scene will be celebrated at a special radio event - Doing the DAB - from Digital Radio UK in partnership with RadioToday.

100% Digital - By Laurence Harrison, Market Development Director, Digital Radio UK

The official start of switching off most radio services from FM has begun in Norway.

The new word on the street in Norway is #FMexit, to represent the digital switchover happening on Wednesday morning

The countdown is on to the official start of digital radio switchover in Norway, beginning on January 11th at 11:11.11am.

Angel can now be heard on DAB in Aldershot, Bristol, Brighton, Birmingham, Cambridge, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, London, Norwich, West Sussex and Woking.

The digital pop-up service is on-air until January 3rd 2017 – BBC Radio Cymru’s 40th birthday.

The launch of the final transmitter, located at Turnpike Hill, completes a programme of work to expand local DAB coverage to 95% of households and roads in Kent.

You can hear the event in full exclusively on inRad.io tonight from 7pm. Listen via TuneIn, website, Apple TV or Android/iPhone apps.

They say the current operator, Bauer Media, has made no attempt to offer solutions such as DAB+.

The report confirms that digital listening has increased to 45.5% and in six areas of the UK digital listening exceeds 50%, led by Sussex.

The event is taking place at 6pm on Thursday 8 December at Texture Bar in central Manchester.

A radio station is launching in Manchester playing traditional Christmas carols and general festive music from Dec 1st.

David Jensen and Pat Sharp are among the presenting line-up for commercial radio operator UKRD's new digital service, My Music Radio.

The small-scale DAB trial for Aldershot has added a second transmitter to its service to expand the coverage area.

BBC Radio Humberside’s David Burns is broadcasting his mid-morning programme live from Café Indie Pendent in Scunthorpe between 9am and midday

The station will re-broadcast the audio of Bloomberg television with the exception of a European breakfast show and the 4-5pm Bloomberg Markets: European Close show.

Jazz fan Will Young will host a show on the BBC Music Jazz DAB station this year.

ENCORE RADIO, backed by UKRD, will officially start at 1pm Monday and will feature West End Star Duncan James and TV and radio personality Liz Wickham.

The countdown and switch on moment was broadcast from the school live across the county to listeners on BBC Radio Suffolk.

British digital radio brand VQ is taking on a seasonal marketing campaign with a number of Bauer stations including Absolute Radio and Magic.

Country music radio stations are like buses in Suffolk. And one of them sounds like a bus company too.

Patrick Hannon from World DAB updates us on digital radio events from the International Broadcasting Convention.

Ofcom has concluded that the small-scale DAB trial has successfully achieved all three of its aims.

A special radio event took place in Hull on Thursday morning urging listeners in Northern Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire to retune their digital radios sets.

Weather 24/7 Radio is set to launch on DAB+ next week, providing rolling weather information 24 hours a day.

It was a year ago today the Trial Portsmouth DAB multiplex started broadcasting with six services.

Ofcom has approved a number of changes on Muxco's North East Wales & West Cheshire DAB digital radio multiplex.

Two new radio stations playing 80s music will launch at an 80s festival this weekend in the North West.

A 15 week DAB pop-up station by BBC Radio Cymru will launch on Monday 19th September 2016 in Wales.

Digital station Radio Yorkshire is expanding its coverage area back in to Leeds after an agreement with a local multiplex.

British audio brand VQ has invested a six figure sum in its digital radio manufacturing facility.

Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy, celebrated a new age of creativity and competition in the UK radio market at a special Digital Radio Reception held today at Global’s Leicester…

Glow Radio - a new station playing hit music is launching in Gloucester on August 1st on DAB.

Magic Radio's latest brand extension, albeit a temporary one, is ‘Magic Soul Summer’, launching today.

At the Radio Academy South FAB on DAB event in Portsmouth, Sam Bonham of Digital Radio UK, announced the June 2016 new car data, showing that four out of the top five car brands in the UK have DAB…

A poll by British audio brand VQ and QVC has revealed Absolute Radio 80s to be the most popular digital station.