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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, […]

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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 […]