SSDAB Awards: 

Ofcom has today awarded small-scale DAB multiplex licences for seven more areas in the UK.
 

Following a competitive process, where each applicant was judged against specific criteria, multiplex licences have now been awarded for the following areas:

    Banbury and Bicester: licence awarded to Maxxwave Limited
    Enniskillen: licence awarded to UlsterMUX Limited
    Rugby and Daventry: licence awarded to Maxxwave Limited
    Stockton-on-Tees: licence awarded to Red Army Group
    Western Isles: licence awarded to Craoladh Digiteach Ionadail Limited
    Weston-super-Mare: licence awarded to North Somerset Digital Radio Limited
    Worcester: licence awarded to Murfin Digital Limited
 

Source: Ofcom

 

 

London 3 Local DAB ensemble:

Smooth Christmas has been added since the previous observation, using DAB+ at 32 kbit/s.
To accommodate the additional service, the bitrates of existing services Capital Chill, Heart Love, Radio X Chilled and Radio X 00s have dropped from 40 to 32 kbit/s.

Source: Wohnort