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BBC National DAB is a digital audio broadcasting
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in the UK, for a number of radio stations which have UK wide coverage. The multiplex is owned and operated by the
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and is transmitted from a number of transmitter sites across the country; it only carries BBC radio stations. As of the end of 2017, more than 97% of the UK's population are within reach of the multiplex following the completion of the switching on of a fourth set of new transmitters over the previous two years which had seen the reach increase from 93%. Any further expansion of DAB radio is awaiting a decision by Government on any possible digital radio switchover.


Stations carried

The following channels are receivable on any digital-equipped DAB radio in the BBC National DAB coverage area:


Full time services


Part time services

The BBC National DAB multiplex makes use of dynamic ensemble reconfiguration to allow a number of part-time services to broadcast. While these additional services are on air the bit rates of (one or more of) BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, and data services are reduced.


"Pop-up" services

The BBC has experimented with short-term "Pop-up" digital radio stations, each broadcasting for approximately four days at a time, covering music festivals and other special events. The first to broadcast was BBC Radio 5 Live Olympics Extra in 2012, then
BBC Radio 2 Eurovision BBC Radio 2 Eurovision was a pop-up DAB service from the BBC which launched at 12 noon on Thursday 8 May 2014. The station continued to broadcast for 12 hours each day until Sunday 11 May 2014. The station returned at noon on Thursday 21 May 20 ...
launched for the first time in 2014, and was joined by
BBC Radio 2 Country BBC Radio 2 Country was a pop-up DAB service from the BBC which launched at 12:00 on Thursday 5 March 2015. The station covered the Country2Country Festival and was on air for the festival's duration. On its debut, the station broadcast for tw ...
,
BBC Music Jazz BBC Music Jazz (a British national radio station) was a temporary pop-up Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) service which was a collaboration between BBC Radio, Jazz FM and The EFG Jazz London Festival. The service ran from Thursday, 12 November ...
in 2015 and
BBC Radio 2 50s BBC Radio 2 50s was a short-lived pop-up DAB service from the BBC, that broadcast from 14:00 on Thursday 14 April 2016 until Sunday 17 April 2016. It played music from the 1950s, which had received much less airplay on Radio 2 since the 1990s. ...
in April 2016. When these temporary stations are on air, there is normally a reduction in bit rate of their parent station.


Station closures

BBC Asian Network was due to be axed in around 2011 after plans to close down the station were published. The BBC also planned to close 6 Music. Since then both stations have been saved from closure – 6 Music was retained after listening figures increased and a campaign was set up on Facebook which had 180,000 supporters.


See also

* Timeline of Digital Audio Broadcasting in the UK


References

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