{"id":223767,"date":"2026-02-14T11:50:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-communications-authority-activates-kenyas-first-digital-sound-broadcasting-trial-in-nairobi\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:50:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T09:50:39","slug":"kenya-communications-authority-activates-kenyas-first-digital-sound-broadcasting-trial-in-nairobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-communications-authority-activates-kenyas-first-digital-sound-broadcasting-trial-in-nairobi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Communications Authority Activates Kenya&#8217;s First Digital Sound Broadcasting Trial in Nairobi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Nairobi \u2014 The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has facilitated the activation of Kenya&#8217;s first trial Digital Sound Broadcasting (DSB) signal for radio services in Nairobi, marking a major milestone as the world celebrates World Radio Day 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Sound broadcasting remains one of Kenya&#8217;s most influential media platforms, reaching approximately 98% of households and supporting over 300 licensed broadcast services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">However, FM frequencies in VHF Band II (87.5-108.0 MHz) are now saturated in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602130476.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has facilitated the activation of Kenya&#8217;s first trial Digital Sound Broadcasting (DSB) signal for radio services in Nairobi, marking a major milestone as the world celebrates World Radio Day 2026. Sound broadcasting remains one of Kenya&#8217;s most influential media platforms, reaching approximately 98% of households and supporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":223768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[21843,258,256,9367,12896,8928,9633,4688,430,6097,259,257,12304,254,6564],"class_list":["post-223767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-activates","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authority","tag-broadcasting","tag-communications","tag-digital","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-sound","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}