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Using RDS (European model only)8

RDS Program types

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.
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
Other M Other music not fitting any of the
above categories
Weather Weather reports
Finance Finance and business
Children Children’s' entertainment
Social Social affairs
Religion Religious programming
Phone in Phone in talk show
Tra v e l Holiday-type travel rather than traffic
announcements, etc.
Leisure Leisure interests and hobbies
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
Document Documentaries
In addition, there are program types, ALARM and
TEST, used for exceptional emergency announcements.
The tuner will switch automatically to that station if it
picks up either of these RDS signals.

Using RDS

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
what kind of show they’re broadcasting, for example.
RDS allows you to search through stations automati-
cally using this information. It shows up as text on the
display, and you can switch between the type of
information shown. Although you don’t get RDS
information from all FM radio stations, you do with
most.
This unit lets 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.