➤Switzerland: Radiodays Europe 2019 has posted its preliminary programme. I'm speaking, but don't let that put you off: there are also many excellent speakers (and my session is also with Tom Webster of Edison Research).
➤UK: Chris Evans started his new breakfast show on Virgin Radio. Here are highlights, and Campaign covers its funding model - it doesn't have any ad breaks. Adam Bowie writes about this too - and so have I in my weekly column. Very cleverly, the commercial sponsorship with Sky doesn't just include a new outlet for the station on channel 0215, but also catch-up on Sky boxes. (Less clever: the station on Sky is being fed by a DAB tuner.)
➤UK: Scala Radio to launch - a new classical music station with Simon Mayo, who left BBC Radio 2 at the end of last year. The two classical stations in the UK sound very posh, and this one might be a little more accessible. Adam Bowie has looked at where it might fit. Jon Jacob is excited by it.
➤Australia: Commercial radio in Australia posts highest ever figures for audience. Yes, population growth is 1.7%, but commercial radio's audience figures are up by 1.9% if I've worked it out right. Audience revenue is also up by 3.4% year-on-year.
➤Austria to get more radio as it adds DAB+.
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