Using RDS (UK model only)

Radio Data System, or RDS as it's usually known, is a system used by FM radio stations to provide listeners with various information—the name of the station and the kind of show they're broadcasting, for example. This information shows up as text on the display, and you can switch between the kind of information shown. Although you don't get RDS information from all FM radio stations, you do with most.

Probably the most useful feature of RDS is that you can search automatically by type of program. So, if you felt like listening to jazz, you could have the MT search for a station that's broadcasting a show with the program type, "JAZZ." There are around 30 such program types, including various genres of music, news, sport, talk shows, financial information, and so on.

This unit let's you display three different kinds of RDS information: Radio Text, Program Service Name, and Program Type.

Radio Text (RT) is a message sent by the radio station. It can be anything the broadcaster chooses—a talk radio station might give out its telephone number as RT, for example.

Program Service Name (PS) is the name of the radio station.

Program Type (PTY) indicates the kind of program currently being broadcast.

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Program types

Pop M

Pop music

Rock M

Rock music

M.O.R. M

"Middle of the road" music

Light M

'Light' classical music

Classics

'Serious' classical music

Jazz

Jazz music

Country

Country music

Nation M

Popular music in a language other than

 

English

Oldies

Popular music from the '50s

Folk M

Folk music

Other M

Other music not fitting any of the above

 

categories

News

News

Affairs

Current affairs

Info

General information

Sport

Sports

Educate

Educational material

Drama

Radio drama

Culture

Arts and culture

Science

Science and technology

Varied

Usually talk-based material, such as quiz

 

shows or interviews.

Weather

Weather reports

Finance

Finance and business

Children

Children’s entertainment

Social A

Social affairs

Religion

Religious programming

Phone in

Phone in talk show

Travel

Holiday-type travel rather than traffic

 

announcements, etc.

Leisure

Leisure interests and hobbies

Document

Documentaries

In addition, there is a program type, ALARM!, used for exceptional emergency announcements. You can't search for this, but the tuner will switch automatically to that station if it picks up this RDS signal.

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