Small Scale DAB launched across Milton Keynes on 1st May 2024

- Clearer signal

- Increased coverage

- Enhanced functionality

- Reduced broadcast costs

Digital radio is coming to the UK, and we want to help secure your place in the story. 

In 2018, Ofcom announced plans for small-scale digital radio (ssDAB).  This was to ensure that smaller radio stations, who were unable to afford the expensive carriage fees on regional DAB multiplexes were still able to be part of the move from AM and FM to digital broadcasting. 

MK Digital Media Limited, was awarded the licence to operate the (mux) in Milton Keynes. The multiplex can carry a number of services to a potential audience of over 250,000. 

What is ssDAB?

- New technology

- Lower cost

- Software driven

- Localised areas

Small-scale DAB is a new way of transmitting digital radio that uses advances in software and low-cost computer technology to provide a flexible and inexpensive approach to the terrestrial broadcast of digital radio services to a relatively small geographic area.

The system uses this new technology to carry a number of services on the same frequency.  This single frequency, which broadcasts multiple services is called a multiplex.

Ofcom have divided the UK into "polygons" - areas which may be covered by these new multiplexes.