Digital Audio Broadcasting Will Enter a New Period of Accelerated Growth in 2007/8 Driven By the Availability of This New Spectrum plus the Introduction of New Revenue-Generating Opportunities.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c46283) has announced the addition of Digital Radio 2006 - A Global Review to their offering.

"Digital Radio 2006-2012" is a 265 page, non-commissioned, independent report providing an objective analysis of the global digital radio market during the next 6 years Some of the Key Business Issues addressed in this report include: Declining advertising revenues and media convergence are accelerating the transition of radio to digital. Broadcasters are busy evaluating the merits of various digital platforms. During the past three years, the prospects for DAB have improved substantially around the world. DAB is no longer an UK only phenomenon and receiver sales are increasing rapidly in several European countries. In South Korea, mobile TV via the DMB standard has had an Impressive start with over a million receivers sold to date and similar services are being launched in China, Germany and the UK. There are now more than 250 DAB and 100 TDMB receiver products on the market with prices of DAB audio products starting as low as 30GBP.The recent allocation of new spectrum for radio means that DAB has returned to the agendas of many regulatory authorities. The latest global digital radio survey revealed that several countries are firming up plans to launch DAB services within the next 12-18months. In 2007/8, DAB will enter a new period of accelerated growth driven by the availability of this new spectrum plus the introduction of new revenue-generating opportunities enabled by the availability of new multimedia receivers and mobile TV phones. In the next three years, DAB will change from being a virtually audio-only platform into a fully interactive multimedia and mobile TV platform capable Of delivering a range of revenue generating services such as music downloads, mobile TV services, visual radio content (graphics, images), TPEG traffic and travel information, etc.

But DAB is no longer the only terrestrial digital radio standard. The development of new technologies such as DRM (and in particular DRM+), HD Radio anodised-TBS as well as mobile TV standards such as DVB-Means that Dab's monopoly as the only mobile digital terrestrial radio technology is coming to an end. The availability of these Technologies means that broadcasters around the world will have an increasing choice of Technical standards in the future." DAB will become a fully interactive multimedia Platform in the next 3 years"

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OUTLINE OF REPORTABBREVIATIONS AND DEFINITIONS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1.0 RADIO AND THE DIGITAL CHALLENGE

2.0 DIGITAL AUDIO BROADCASTING - THE NEXT SIX YEARS

3.0 DAB COUNTRY ANALYSIS - EMEA REGION

4.0 DAB COUNTRY ANALYSIS - ASIA-PACIFIC REGION

5.0 DAB COUNTRY ANALYSIS - AMERICAS REGION

6.0 PROSPECTS FOR DIGITAL RADIO MONDIALE (DRM).

7.0 A REVIEW OF HD RADIO

8.0 PROSPECTS FOR DIGITAL RADIO VIA 242

9.0 DIGITAL RADIO IN JAPAN

10.0 DIGITAL RADIO FORECASTS

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