51 RADIO STATIONS NOW AVAILABLE ON DAB+ IN HAUTS-DE-FRANCE

After Paris, Marseille and Nice, DAB+ is now available in Lille and in the Hauts-de-France region with the launch of 51 stations. On-air radio is continuing its transition to digital, as part of the trend in Europe. This is an ambitious national deployment plan being driven by the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA - Superior Council of the Audiovisual)

70% of the French population covered in three years

The CSA's strategy, known as the 'nodes and arcs plan', will make DAB+ accessible to 70% of the French population by 2020. In three years, the large conurbations (the 'nodes') and the main road arteries (the 'arcs') will be covered.

In the next few months, the deployment of DAB+ will continue in Alsace, Rhône-Alpes, Normandy, Brittany, Gironde and Occitanie. Moreover, a multi-regional call for candidatures covering fifteen zones and a national call for candidatures will be launched shortly.

The digital radio revolution

DAB+ is based on the qualities of on-air broadcasting (reliability, free for the listener, anonymous listening), while bringing new features: high-quality sound, continuous reception on the move and associated digital services.

DAB+ will enable the radio offering to be expanded with more local, regional, theme-based, music or general programmes. As an example, 36 of the radio stations among those who are joining DAB+ were not present in the Nord or Pas-de-Calais: 17 radio stations[1] are totally new to the residents of the Nord and Pas-de-Calais, 12[2] were already present in these départements but are now more widely accessible and 7[3] are only accessible in DAB+.

The radio offering in DAB+ is very wide-ranging, and covers general-interest stations such as Sud Radio, public broadcasters like RFI or FIP, the national music radio stations, music stations like FG or Latina, local stations like Metropolys or Radio 6, theme-based stations like RCF or Radio Orient and stations run by associations.
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