In August this year Australia officially launched DAB+ in it’s major cities. Uniquely, all competing stations gathered together in the major cities for simultaeneous live broadcasts without any major ego incidents !!!
Here is a short video of the day and the immense media coverage it received from Commercial Radio Australia.

Another key milestone in the roll-out of digital radio is the agreement today from motor manufacturers to install DAB receivers in cars from 2014.
This fits very well with UK and French targets for digital broadcasting with both countries having key digital dates around 2015.
Up to now car manufacturers have been reluctant to install DAB radios due to conflicting standards across Europe. However, now the WorldDAB standard has been established, a single €10 chipset can handle all these different types of signal. This means a digital radio set will work equally …