DAB+: Hamburg gets 11 new stations in one fell swoop

• Eleven new programs go on air in Hamburg on April 14th.
• The novelty is a (twelfth) program slot for event channels that can be switched on temporarily.
• The reception of existing DAB+ programs is also improved.

The variety of digital radio programs in Germany’s largest Hanseatic city will grow by eleven DAB+ stations on Thursday. These include 89.0 RTL, bigFM, ByteFM, JAM FM, nice, Ostseewelle, Radio Bollerwagen, Radio Nordseewelle, Radio Lübeck 88.5, Radio Paradiso, Radio TEDDY and a slot for a temporary event radio.

Innovation Event-Radio

Those responsible are particularly proud of this last-named slot. After all, it represents an innovation that has never existed before in the German digital radio landscape. Hamburg-specific events such as the Port Birthday or the Reeperbahn Festival are cited by the operator Media Broadcast as examples of use.

Four more DAB+ stations announced

The number of programs that you can receive in the Hanseatic city via DAB+ increases to around 65 with the new program ensemble. The successive activation of the four programs HarbourTownRadio, lounge plus, pure fm and a new program from Regiocast GmbH on the initially according to media broadcast information, free places will take place in the coming months.

Reception of already existing programs improves

Parallel to the switching on of the new program ensemble in channel 12C, the operator increased the transmission power of the existing private radio offer in channel 10D. There are also 16 other programs available for you there.

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