Sep 25 2018
UK, London, 25 September 2018: Sound Digital, the national commercial DAB multiplex operated by Arqiva, Bauer and Wireless, has today announced that its expansion programme of 19 new transmitters is nearing completion, with the first of the extended coverage areas due to go live in the coming weeks. Announced in May 2018, the expansion of […]
Dec 19 2017
Forces Radio BFBS is returning to national DAB digital radio next year. After nine months away we will return as a DAB+ station on January 24 2018. As the forces broadcaster, we entertain, inform and connect the British Forces community worldwide. Even if we do say so ourselves, Forces Radio BFBS broadcasts a superb line-up […]
Mar 15 2016
talkSPORT has today launched a sister 24-hour radio station at the Cheltenham Festival of horse racing. talkSPORT 2 began broadcasting at 10am and is available across the UK on digital radio as well as online. It will carry live coverage of the Cheltenham horse racing festival and has also acquired rights to broadcast ICC World Twenty20 […]
Mar 1 2016
The Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, Rt Hon John Whittingdale MP, has officially launched the UK’s second national DAB digital radio multiplex. He was joined at the Drive to Digital event alongside Steve Holebrook, Managing Director of Arqiva Terrestrial Broadcast and Chairman of Sound Digital. Mr Whittingdale also launched a national retune […]
Feb 10 2016
Virgin Radio is to return to the UK airwaves, along with three spin-off TalkSport stations and a host of new nationwide broadcasters as part of a new wave of digital radio stations. The rock and pop music brand owned by Richard Branson is one of 14 stations that will launch on Sound Digital, the second […]
Mar 27 2015
Ofcom today announced the UK’s new national digital radio multiplex will be run by Sound Digital, a consortium of Arqiva, Bauer and UTV Media GB. Digital radio listeners will benefit from a choice of new national Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) radio stations, expected to launch in March next year. No DAB+ Just More Mono In […]
Feb 2 2015
Ofcom has named Listen2Digital and Sound Digital in the running for the second national, commercial digital radio multiplex in the UK, which will deliver around 15 new national DAB stations from 2016. Ofcom invited applications in July 2014 to operate a new DAB multiplex and said bids will be assessed on the innovation they can […]
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Oct 29 2018
Sound Digital adds Four million more listeners
Four million more listeners across the UK can now receive 19 further radio stations on DAB digital radio for the first time following the launch of new transmitters covering parts of East Anglia, the South West, Kent, South Wales and North East Scotland. The new transmitters have expanded the coverage of Sound Digital, the national […]
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By Expat • DAB • Tags: Absolute 80s, DAB, Jazz FM, Kisstory, Planet Rock, Sound Digital, TalkRadio, talkSPORT2, Virgin Radio