Details about digital radio stations and coverage are available from the Digital Radio Development Bureau.

Digital Radio Working Group

On 22 November 2007 we announced the launch of a new taskforce to discuss the future of digital radio.The independently chaired expert and consumer working group will look at how to promote digital radio and increase the numbers of people listening to it.

The Digital Radio Working Group, Chaired by Barry Cox, and made up of key stakeholders has been tasked with considering:

• What conditions would need to be achieved before digital platforms could become the predominant means of delivering radio?
• What are the current barriers to the growth of digital radio?
• What are the possible remedies to those barriers?

The Digital Radio Working Group will be holding meetings throughout the year and is expected to report to the Secretary of State in late 2008.  The Group is formed of representatives from DCMS, Ofcom, BERR, DigitalOne, 4 Digital Group, RadioCentre, BBC, Intellect, Arqiva, SMMT, Community Media Association and the Consumer Expert Group.  The Group aims to engage with all parts of the sector and is planning to hold a Stakeholders seminar in early March.

This will offer the opportunity for interested parties to hear how the Group is proceeding and to feed their comments into the Group’s considerations.