DAB continues to become a standard across the world with Toyota announcing it’s new Prius will include a DAB/FM radio in the standard spec.
This follows Ford’s announcement last year that DAB will be a standard in their Kuga Titanium range. DAB is already a popular option with most other UK car manafacturers.
For domestic radios it is getting harder and harder to buy a radio that does not have DAB as standard. As well as UK highstreet brands based here like Currys, Dixons etc Irish owned electronics stores such as Power …

For a digital radio company we did something interesting today … we put one of our stations on FM.
Raidió Rí-Rá, our Top 40 format Irish language station, has been quietly ticking away for the past year. With the lack of DAB activity at the moment we decided to run the station under a temporary FM licence in the run up to St Patricks Day. It’s broadcasting to the four main cities of Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway and was formally launched on-air today by Minister for the Gaeltacht Mr Eamon …