DAB Archives

MaXXima

21/10/2024

MaXXima is an electronic music genre radio station in Switzerland with both a terrestrial broadcast network on DAB+ and internet radio streams broadcasting a CD Quality lossless FLAC stream, a 192kbps and 320kbps MP3 and an 8okbps AAC+ stream. Their multilingual website (English, French, German and Italian) contains news, a ‘listen again’ feature and a programme guide. Website: https://maxxima.ch/ Web Player: https://www.maxxima.ch/player/ CD Quality Lossless FLAC: https://maxxima.mine.nu/maxx.ogg MP3 320kbps: https://maxxima.mine.nu/maxx.mp3 MP3 192kbps: https://maxxima.mine.nu/maxxima.mp3 AAC+ 80kbps: […]

Eirewave Radio

28/04/2024

Eirewave is a UK-based pop and rock music radio station with terrestrial DAB transmitters in Belfast and Derry plus an internet radio presence with availability on the UK Radioplayer, smart speakers and devices, various radio aggregators and via direct streaming links. There are also iOS and Android apps. The station has reinstated its CD Quality Lossless FLAC stream plus a 128kbps MP3 and 64kbps AAC (although foobar measures it at 320kbps?) direct stream link. Their […]

Soul City FM

28/08/2023

Soul City FM was a pop music genre station broadcasting tunes from the 60’s to the present. It had a DAB+ on-air transmitter based in Santa Cruz, Tenerife and an internet radio presence. There was a lossless CD Quality FLAC stream and a webplayer. Note: None of these links work but have been kept for historical interest. Website: https://www.soulcityfm.com/ Webplayer: https://www.soulcityfm.com/ CD Quality Lossless FLAC: http://euk-85965.eukservers.com:8000/soul To find out more about CD Quality Internet […]

Podcast Radio launches in London

12/02/2020

Podcast Radio launches in London this week broadcasting in the Greater London area via DAB+ and online on Spotify, Deezer and Apple Podcasts. The station devoted exclusively to broadcasting podcasts features live presenters, hourly news updates and guest stars 24 hours a day. Initial guest appearances include Robbie Williams, Gene Simmons, Uri Geller, Charlotte Moffatt, Chris Kamara, Julian Clary and Steve-O. CEO Gerry Edwards says, “For listeners, Podcast Radio will enable them to discover and […]

News

UKRD to launch pop-up digital radio stations for Christmas

23/08/2018

Commercial radio operator, UKRD Group, has announced that it will be launching ten digital pop-up Christmas radio stations this year. The in-App, Online and Smart Speaker enabled digital radio stations will launch in November and broadcast until the 31st December 2018. Playing nothing but Christmas songs, each radio station, though centrally delivered, will be locally branded for each of the ten markets in which the group owns and operates a local radio station. Peter Gordon, […]

Radio

Digital radio overtakes AM and FM in UK

28/05/2018

50.9% of all listening in the UK was digital in the first three months of 2018 according to radio research body RAJAR. This compares to 47.2% for the first quarter in 2017. The share of radio listening by platform in the first quarter of 2018 to 17th May 2018 was: AM/FM 49.1% All Digital 50.9% DAB 36.8% Digital TV 4.8% Online/Apps 9.3% Total listening for all radio platforms during the quarter amounted to 1,025 million […]