Media Broadcast to add thirteen new digital radio sites in 2019

Germany’s Media Broadcast said it will expand the digital radio standard DAB+ network in 2019 by thirteen new sites, raising the number from 124 to 137. Reception will improve in 2019 in Baden-Wurttemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Schleswig-Holstein. 

Digitalradio-Multiplex will reach 99 percent coverage on motorways. The number of people who receive radio at home will increase from 66.5 million in 2018 to 68.4 million in 2019, which equals about 85 percent of the population. At the end of 2019, mobile reception will be around 96.0 percent compared with 94.4 percent in the previous year. New sites will be built this year in Hoher Bogen, Blauen, Eggegebirge, Kettichhof, Hillschied and Oberammergau, among other places.

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