WorldDAB Summit 2023 brochure

summit 2023

Wednesday 8 November 2023 09:00-15:30 (CET)

Design Offices Munich Atlas, Rosenheimer Str. 143C, 81671 Munich

In-person and online

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Welcome Dear colleagues Welcome to the WorldDAB General Assembly and Summit 2023.

I’m delighted that, for the first time in five years, we are back in Germany, the largest DAB+ market in the world.

As many of you will know, after ten years in the role, I am stepping down as President of WorldDAB. In that period, DAB+ radio has made significant progress – and is now firmly established as the core future platform for radio in Europe.

That said, there is still much to be achieved – but the prospects are extremely promising.

Within Europe, in addition to our established DAB markets, we are seeing important developments in multiple markets including France, Sweden, and Czechia.

Of equal significance, particularly for the longer term, we are seeing growing interest in DAB+ across the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific region: • • •

Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have joined Qatar in offering regular services.

Ghana and Uganda have recently launched trials, following the footsteps of South Africa, Tunisia, and Algeria.

In Asia Pacific, Thailand and Indonesia have both confirmed their commitment to DAB+.

WorldDAB, through the Project Office and its members, is actively supporting these developments and is keen to support any other markets considering their first steps into the world of DAB radio.

Talking of the Project Office, we are extremely fortunate to have such an experienced and expert team organising our General Assembly and Summit, along with so many other events through the year. As ever, my thanks go to Bernie and the team for all their hard work in organising this year’s event.

I look forward to seeing you all in Munich.

Best wishes

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Programme Session 1 09:00 - 10:00 CET WorldDAB - change and continuity

Outgoing WorldDAB President, Patrick Hannon, passes the baton to WorldDAB’s incoming President Speakers: Patrick Hannon, VP Corporate Development, Frontier Smart Technologies and WorldDAB Incoming President

Thinking ahead instead of carrying on - long term strategies for radio and audio Bavaria is one of the strongest advocates and sponsors of DAB+. All FM

radio stations in Bavaria can also be received via DAB+, and FM is losing relevance as DAB+ grows.

Speaker: Dr Thorsten Schmiege, President, Bayerischen Landeszentrale für neue Medien (BLM)

Patrick Hannon VP Corporate Development

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WorldDAB Incoming President

Increasing DAB+ coverage in France: 60% by 2024

17 DAB+ multiplexes launched during the summer of 2023 resulting in 50% population coverage. As the national DAB+ network continues to expand, 60% of the population will have DAB+ by the beginning of 2024.

Speaker: Hervé Godechot, Board Member, Arcom

10:00 - 10:30 CET Coffee

Dr Thorsten Schmiege President, Bayerischen Landeszentrale für neue Medien (BLM)

Hervé Godechot Board Member, Arcom

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Programme Session 2 10:30-12:00 CET DAB down under

Speaker: Ford Ennals, CEO, Commercial Radio & Audio, Australia

Transforming radio - embracing the digital era

Moderator: Carsten Zorger, Director, Digitalradio Büro Deutschland • Guy Fränkel, Executive Director, Rock Antenne • Kathrin Kluser, Media Specialist, OFCOM, Switzerland • Ian O’Neill, Head of Radio; Head of Broadcasting Security & Resilience DCMS, United Kingdom

Developing small-scale DAB+

A preview of new academic research on the implementation and development of small-scale DAB+ from the University of Bedfordshire, UK for WorldDAB. Speakers: Dr Lawrie Hallett, University of Bedfordshire in conversation with Will Jackson, Communications Manager, WorldDAB

Ford Ennals Carsten Zorger Guy Fränkel Kathrin Kluser Ian O’Neill, OBE CEO, Commercial Director, Executive Director, Media Specialist, Head of Radio; Radio & Audio, Digitalradio Büro Rock Antenne OFCOM, Head of Australia Deutschland Switzerland Broadcasting Security & Resilience DCMS, United Kingdom –6–

Global growth of DAB+ led by emerging territories

Emerging digital radio territories are leading the way for DAB+ growth, alongside the well-established DAB+ markets.

Emerging DAB+ market updates from: • Africa - Speaker: Christiana Attrams, Engineering Division, National Communications Authority (NCA), Ghana • Asia - Speaker: Ignatius Hendrasmo, President Director, Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI) • MENA - Speaker: Abdulla Ahmed Al Balooshi, Assistant Undersecretary of Technical Affairs, Ministry of Information, Bahrain

12:00 - 13:00 CET Lunch

Dr Lawrie Hallett Will Jackson Christiana Ignatius University of Communications Attrams Hendrasmo Bedfordshire Manager, Engineering President Director, WorldDAB Division, National Radio Republik Communications Indonesia (RRI) Authority (NCA), Ghana

Abdulla Ahmed Al Balooshi Assistant Undersecretary of Technical Affairs, Ministry of Information, Bahrain –7–

DAB+ Headends

DSP based, reliable, made in Germany

Encoders Scalable all-in-one solu�ons • •

Remote andintegrated Encoders Integrated Monitoring

Mul�plexers

Switches & Accessories

DTS AutoStage Broadcaster Portal Gain access to unprecedented insights and listener behaviour.

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www.avt-nbg.de

Reliable DAB Solutions Multiplexing, Encoding, Monitoring, Test & Tunnel Systems

DAB / DAB+ 15+ years of flexible, scalable DAB multi-multiplexing and multi-encoding on one platform - VM, server/PC or Cloud. Seamless smart redundancy for audio inputs and EDI outputs on subchannel level. Many different audio over IP inputs including AES67 implemented, others on demand. Program Associated Data over IP and monitoring included.

www.digidia.fr

we can TPEG

100% IP Based

Announcement Radio Toolbox Project

- Testing of DAB announcements - Cloud-based production of services - Speech synthesis of content for an info channel - Virtualisation of production and DAB technology

WEBINAR

Funded by Bavarian State Chancellery

www.wecantpeg.com

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Programme Session 3 13:00-14:15 CET The power of the screen

New opportunities are available to radio broadcasters with display-capable DAB+ home and in-car devices. We’ll have case studies from two very different uses of the DAB+ display: • The search for a missing child in Italy Speakers: Fabio Placidi and Ettore Vantaggiato, MediaDAB • AI generated cover art in the ART project in Germany Speaker: Mathias Küfner, Bayerische Medien Technik GmbH

A public emergency warning system based on DAB+

WorldDAB’s Emergency Warnings task force is working to define requirements and testing methods for receiver features, providing the basis for an international implementation.

Speaker: Lindsay Cornell, Chair, WorldDAB Technical Committee, and Principal Systems Architect, BBC Digital, BBC

Fabio Placidi MediaDAB

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Ettore Vantaggiato MediaDAB

Mathias Software E Bayerische Tech

DAB+ showcase: 15 Years of Absolute Radio

How Bauer Media’s Absolute Radio in the United Kingdom grew audience and revenue across fifteen years, going from one analogue station to a network of DAB+ digital services.

Speaker: Paul Sylvester, Content Director, Absolute Radio at Bauer Media

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14:15 - 14:30 CET Coffee

Lindsay Cornell Chair, WorldDAB Technical Committee, and Principal Systems Architect, BBC Digital, BBC

Paul Sylvester Content Director, Absolute Radio at Bauer Media – 11 –

Programme Session 4 14:30-15:30 CET Radio listening trends - what, where and how?

How listening behaviour is changing over time and why DAB+ provides a firm foundation that’s driving listening growth.

Speakers: Mark Pearson, Senior Analyst, Research & Intelligence, Ofcom UK, in conversation with Lindsey Mack, Senior Manager DAB & External Affairs BBC Sounds

Android Automotive - continuing the conversation

Content, importance, and support for DAB radio in Android Automotive’s latest release.

Speakers: Joseph D’Angelo, Senior Vice President, Broadcast Radio, Xperi and Gregor Pötzsch, Product Owner, Radio, CARIAD, Volkswagen Group

Mark Pearson Senior Analyst, Research & Intelligence, Ofcom UK

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Lindsey Mack Senior Manager DAB & External Affairs BBC Sounds

Joseph D’Angelo Senior Vice President, Broadcast Radio, Xperi

Gregor Product Radio, C Volkswag

Where DAB+ meets AI

How radio broadcasters are strengthening their brand and leveraging opportunities with AI. Speakers: Luigi Troiano, Founder and CEO, Kebula with Yann Legarson, CEO, Radioplayer

DAB+ marketing - ideas, ads, successes!

Speaker: Jacqueline Bierhorst, Chair, WorldDAB Marketing Group, and Project Director, Digital Radio NL

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15:30 CET Close

Luigi Troiano Founder and CEO, Kebula

Yann Legarson CEO, Radioplayer

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Lunch sponsor

Networking drinks sponsor

Coffee break sponsor

Delegate bag sponsor

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Sponsors and exhibitors AlanDick Broadcast AlanDick Broadcast is a global leader in the broadcast industry, offering fully integrated RF broadcast systems from the transmitter output to the tower top. We provide FM, UHF, and VHF (DAB) Antennas, Combiners, Filters, Patch Panels, and a complete range of Rigid Transmission Lines, Towers, and Field Services. We were the first to produce DAB Antenna systems and have been making them continuously longer than any other manufacturer. With proven innovative technology, we are proud to be the equipment provider for the largest broadcast network operators in the world, with systems designed for the harshest environments. Furthermore, several network operators and systems integrators worldwide use the “Antenna Array” software developed by AlanDick Broadcast to create antenna systems. www.alandickbroadcast.com

Aldena ALDENA is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of Antennas and RF coaxial accessories for Broadcasting, Civil and Military application. ALDENA is involved in different DAB+ networks rollouts, Thanks to its know-how and a reliable and customer-oriented portfolio. Our solutions includes: Antennas for digital/ analogue services (DAB+, FM Radio, DVB-T2, ATSC 3.0, ISDB-T, TETRA, PMR, ATC), Coaxial RF components, Measuring equipments, Tower spines-mechanical structure. ALDENA also offers high quality engineering services: In Factory Pattern measurements, Antenna design, Network planning, Commissioning, Training. EMLAB software - powered by ALDENA - is used worldwide for antenna array design, coverage/interference calculations and to calculate the human body exposition to the RF Field Strengths (EM Near Field/Health Safety). www.aldena.it – 14 –

AVT Audio Video Technologies AVT Audio Video Technologies was founded in 1996 in Nuremberg as a manufacturer for professional audio equipment. Today, AVT is a leading manufacturer of DAB technology offering reliable hardware and software solutions for small, cost effective setups as well as scalable, fully redundant headends. By tailoring individual solutions aimed at the changing requirements of a developing market, AVT equips its partners with the technology necessary to shape the media landscape of tomorrow. While steadily developing new systems to connect digital infrastructure and broadcast, we also make sure to continuously improve our existing products by implementing new features to enable sustained use. All our hardware systems are DSP based to offer highest reliability for a prolonged lifecycle. AVT has more than two decades of comprehensive audio knowledge and offers more than just DAB products. As one of the leading manufacturers of telephone hybrid systems and audio codecs, we are also able to realize crosssystem integrations. The AVT systems, which are developed and manufactured in Germany, are deployed worldwide via national distributors. This gives us the opportunity to monitor global developments in broadcast and provide comprehensive solutions. www.avt-nbg.de

bmt bmt is a leading competence center for the realisation of projects within the scope of digital broadcasting. With a long-standing presence in the media industry, bmt has been actively involved in the specification and implementation of DAB and TPEG (Transport Protocol Expert Group) services. Our comprehensive offerings includes both consultancy services and a range of products, such as TPEG ON AIR, TPEG Analyser, TPEG Editor, TPEG Library and TPEG VIEWER. Thanks to our ownership structure, bmt is ideally positioned to serve as a strategic partner for both public and private broadcasters, device manufacturers, and service providers. The standard catalogue of services is built around cuttingedge technology, complemented by a portfolio that includes interfaces, data conversation and data service provisioning. In the Bavarian digital radio project Announcement Radio Toolbox (ART) bmt is investigating the potential of DAB announcements. In addition to the implementation of the basic idea, the project also deals with other topics, such as the cloud-based production of music programmes, speech synthesis of spoken content, virtualisation of the DAB multiplexer and the IP-based contribution to the DAB transmitter. www.bmt-online.de

Bayerischer Rundfunk Bayerischer Rundfunk , BR for short, is Bavaria’s public broadcasting service with around eight million viewers and listeners tuning in every day throughout Germany. With ten radio stations and two television channels, two internationally renowned symphony orchestras, a celebrated chorus and more than five thousand members of staff, we are one of Europe’s most respected broadcast institutions. BR operates broadcast centres in Munich and Nuremberg and numerous regional offices throughout Bavaria. www.br-online.de

DIGIDIA DIGIDIA provides end-to-end DAB & DAB+ solutions for broadcast and test applications. The broadcast transmission range encompasses multiplexers, content servers, IP gateways for EDI & ETI, and road tunnel transmission/break-in products. The monitoring range includes professional RF receivers and EDI/ETI/ RF monitoring platforms. All products are provided for both virtual and physical server platforms - Software and hardware designs are 100% done in house. DIGIDIA is part of the NAUTEL group with a strong background in the broadcast industry. www.digidia.fr – 15 –

DTS and AIM, a part of Xperi Xperi’s automotive and broadcast technologies, DTS AutoSense, DTS AutoStage, HD Radio and AIM Rapid are designed to improve the in-vehicle experience, making it safer and more enjoyable and enable superior broadcast experiences globally. AIM Rapid is the leading visual radio management and publishing platform for broadcast, connected and hybrid radio platforms. Rapid enhances the broadcast radio experience on incar dashboards and home radios making it easy to centrally manage your services across large networks of stations. DTS AutoStage, built on the largest and deepest data set of broadcast and music metadata, combines over the air broadcast with IP-delivered content for a robust, richer, more personalized in-cabin infotainment experience, to deliver a globally available, OEM-grade enhanced radio solution compatible with DAB+, analog, and HD Radio. When joining DTS AutoStage, broadcasters maintain control of their content in the car dash and gain access to end-user analytics.

Broadcasters can join DTS AutoStage for free at https://onboarding. connectedrad.io

GatesAir For over 100 years, GatesAir (a Thomson Broadcast subsidiary) has been an industry leader in over-the-air transmission solutions for radio and television broadcasters around the world. Our cutting-edge technology helps broadcasters increase efficiency, reliability, and flexibility in their workflows for a profitable and competitive edge. GatesAir’s Maxiva line offers the industry’s most agile and efficient UHF/VHF transmitters and is globally recognized as the premier choice for DAB/DAB+ deployment. Designed for optimized power usage, maintenance, scalability, and connectivity, Maxiva transmitters are the backbone of digital radio and TV broadcasting worldwide. Our Flexiva FM transmitters offer a wide range of power options, from cost-effective, lowpower units to high-efficiency, high-power models. For analog or digital usage, stations across the globe rely on these renowned solutions. For reliable AoIP/ VoIP distribution, our Intraplex STL codecs are the industry standard. Our award-winning IP and 950MHz codecs provide rock-solid, always-on assurance with advanced analytics and control. www.gatesair.com/dab

IRTE

IRTE is a company operating in the Broadcasting sector since more than 50 years, specialized in the design and manufacturing of broadcast antennas in the FM, VHF, DAB and UHF band band as well as parabolic dishes for microwave links and professional satellite reception. In IRTE, we have a technical staff made up of highly qualified professionals for the realization of static checks, electromechanical inspections and all those engineering activities to support the installation of composite antenna systems. The engineering of IRTE has acquired considerable experience which allows it to resolve the specific situations of each individual site. Our laboratories are equipped with all the measuring instruments necessary to test radio links, transmitters and any other element of the supply when performing the role of System Integrator. IRTE is also specialized in “turnkey” installations which are carried out by specialized technicians, foremen and project managers, who carry out and coordinate all the activities on site. IRTE can therefore be considered the reference partner for everything concerning the network design, verification and supply of radio-television broadcasting and microwave transport systems. www.irte.it

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Innovationszentrum für Telekommunikationstechnik GmbH IZT Since 1997, the Innovationszentrum für Telekommunikationstechnik GmbH IZT provides equipment for digital radio systems, transmitters for digital broadcast, receivers for signal monitoring and recording, signal generation and channel simulators. The DAB-specific product portfolio includes the IZT DAB ContentServer – a highly reliable professional broadcast system for DAB. It combines audio encoding, data service management and ensemble/ service multiplex generation in one device. Its reliability has permanently been proven in numerous DAB head-end installations. In addition, the IZT’s signal generators and RF monitoring receivers are powerful laboratory tools, for example for DAB signal analysis or for the development DAB receivers. www.izt-labs.de

Paneda Paneda offers innovative and cost-effective DAB solutions: safety systems, broadcast networks and broadcast systems. Nearly 200 tunnels in Norway are equipped with Paneda systems. Many local and public European broadcasters are using Paneda DAB Head-End systems with a complete range of products including multiplexing, audio encoders, data insertion and content management. www.paneda.no

PLISCH Plisch – The Transmitter Company is a leading manufacturer of DTV and DAB transmitter systems, founded in 1955 and located in Viernheim, Germany.

We deliver innovative products and services to the broadcasting equipment industry – using our scientific and technological expertise – to give a clear technical and economic advantage to our customers. www.plisch.de

Radioplayer Radioplayer is a non-profit partnership, backed only by radio broadcasters, and our aim is to keep radio listening strong in connected cars and other connected devices. Radioplayer operates in 20 countries across Europe and internationally and is growing fast. We have hybrid radio (DAB+, FM, IP) partnerships with CARIAD (VW Group), BMW Group, Renault and others and our official broadcaster metadata is already powering world-class hybrid radio experiences in over 2.5 Million cars. Radioplayer developed one of the world’s first hybrid radio applications in Google’s Android Automotive OS and our leading Automotive streaming app was a launch partner of the first car with Android Automotive, the Polestar 2. As well as automotive technology we also have radio apps for smartphones, smart TV and wearables as well as integrations with smart speakers and voice platforms such as Amazon Alexa. www.radioplayer.org

Syes Syes has been successfully manufacturing Transmitters, systems and solutions for broadcasters for over 30 years. Syes operates worldwide with its technology all developed in house thanks to a powerful R&D. Together with multiple-standard high-efficiency broadcasting Transmitters (air/liquid cooled) and antenna systems, Syes has proudly developed and released a complete line of DAB+ transmitters successfully sold to happy customers worldwide. https://www.syes.eu/ – 17 –

Open Standards for Metadata and Content for Radio Broadcasters and manufacturers globally are using our standards to exchange metadata and content. radiodns.org

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Driving radio into the future

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WorldDAB Members

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