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Digital One

Digital One is a national commercial digital radio multiplex in the United Kingdom, owned by Arqiva. As of March 2010, the multiplex covered more than 90% of the population[1] from 137 transmitters.[2] Coverage was extended to Northern Ireland in July 2013. It contains a list of DAB and DAB+ radio stations operated by Bauer Media Audio UK, Global and News Broadcasting.

Licensed area

United Kingdom

  • 11D (222.064 MHz)
    • England
    • Wales
    • Northern Ireland
  • 12A (223.936 MHz)
    • Scotland

15 November 1999 (1999-11-15)

Smooth Radio Christmas – festive music service, ran from 1 November until 27 December 2011 and operated again as a pop-up in Nov/Dec 2012, 2014 and 2015 (due to the launch of Capital Xtra there was not space for the service in 2013)

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– 1980s music service. Transferred to the Sound Digital multiplex on 29 February 2016.

Absolute Radio 80s

– 1990s music service. Moved onto Digital One from 2010 – initially sharing a slot with Absolute Radio Extra – having previously been provided on local DAB; returned to local-layer DAB in January 2015 so that its capacity could go towards the addition of Magic to Digital One. Absolute Radio 90s returned to Digital One during 2018 (replacing Magic Christmas), before migrating across to Sound Digital in February 2019, as part of a wider reorganisation of Bauer's space across national and local DAB, ahead of the launch of Scala Radio on SDL in March.

Absolute Radio 90s

– Classic rock music station. Transferred to the Sound Digital multiplex on 29 February 2016.

Planet Rock

Easy listening service relaunched in 2010 as national network; local content on local/regional FM frequencies was replaced with network output also broadcast nationally on Digital One. New owners reintroduced local content on local FM/DAB in March 2014 and withdrew Smooth from Digital One in November 2014.

Smooth Radio

(ceased on 12 July 2010[15])

NME Radio

Panjab Radio (temporary service, ceased on 31 May 2010)

(temporary service, ceased on 3 October 2009)

Fun Kids

(ceased on 1 June 2009, replaced by Amazing Radio)

Birdsong

(ceased on 31 March 2008)

TheJazz

(ceased on 31 March 2008)[16]

Capital Life

(ceased on 11 January 2008,[16] immediately replaced by BFBS Radio)

Core

(ceased on 11 January 2008[17] because of financial problems, replaced by Birdsong – see the section below)

Oneword

(ceased on 24 May 2006, replaced by theJazz on 25 December 2006)

Primetime

D1 Temp (ceased on 9 June 2005 – see )

the section below

(ceased on 6 December 2003, replaced by D1 Temp)

Bloomberg

(ceased on 1 July 2003)

ITN

(ceased on 6 October 2013)

Smooth Radio 70s

SID C0C1 (started on 1 May 2013, ceased on 1 July 2015)

TeamRock

(started on 21 September 2009, transferred to the Sound Digital multiplex on 29 February 2016)

Premier Christian Radio

– following an initial three-month trial service (replacing Core), which ended on 31 March 2008, test transmissions for a permanent service began on 17 April 2009 and the station officially launched as a full-time service on Digital One at 07:00 on 20 April 2009. The station was withdrawn from Digital One on 6 March 2017; broadcasts of BFBS services on other platforms continue.

BFBS Radio

and Smooth Extra – these stations played automated music during the daytime, simulcasting the breakfast and evening/night programmes of Heart London and Smooth London respectively. Smooth Extra launched 27 December 2014, following the removal of Smooth Radio (2010) from Digital One (Smooth Christmas had used the slot in November/December), with Heart Extra following in February 2016 in tandem with the migration of several stations from Digital One to Sound Digital. Heart Extra and Smooth Extra converted from mono DAB to stereo DAB+ in 2019, and closed on 12 March 2020, replaced by the national Heart UK and Smooth UK feeds (already used on other national platforms such as TV)[18] The Extra stations' broadcast slots on satellite TV had earlier been switched over to Heart 80s and Heart Dance respectively.

Heart Extra

Services previously carried on the multiplex include:


In addition to the audio services listed above a number of data services, short lived temporary audio services, and mobile video channels have been broadcast on this multiplex.

Sound Digital

Digital One's consumer website (not seemingly updated since 2017).

UK Digital Radio