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Ofcom announces second wave of national digital radio.

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A wave of new music radio services could be on the way after Ofcom unveiled a year-long timetable to expand digital commercial radio in the UK.

The schedule announced last week includes the much-mooted second national digital commercial multiplex, to be advertised in November, and multiplexes for 12 regions across England and Wales.

Although Channel 4 is to date the only confirmed applicant for the new national multiplex, the existing leading commercial radio players and others are understood to be weighing up their options for what is expected to be a strongly-fought licence battle. And, with most of the big operators' main music stations already available on digital, the expectation is that applications will be dominated by brand new services.

Absolute Radio programming and operations director Clive Dickens says the newly published timetable is a ...

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