Digital Broadcasting: Radio

(asked on 7th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment his Department has made of the extent of coverage of the (a) national and (b) local DAB network as at 1 January 2019.


Answered by
Margot James Portrait
Margot James
This question was answered on 12th June 2019

Information about the coverage of national and local DAB networks is compiled by Ofcom. The most recent figures Ofcom are able to provide are from the 2018 Media Nations report published in July 2018.

Commercial

BBC UK wide

Digital One – national multiplex

Sound Digital - national multiplex

Aggregate of local DAB multiplexes

Homes

97.4%

91.7%

77.0%

91.0%

Major roads

87.4%

80.2%

66.9%

75.2%

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