Locating a station by programme type

You can locate the station you want by selecting one of the programme types shown below.

Programme typesDisplay

News

News

Current Affairs

Affairs

Information

Info

Sports

Sport

Education

Educate

Drama

Drama

Culture

Culture

Science

Science

Varied

Varied

Popular Music

Pop M

Rock Music

Rock M

Easy Listening

Easy M

Light Classical

Light M

Classical

Classics

Other Music Type

Other M

Weather

Weather

Finance

Finance

Children’s programmes

Children

Social Affairs

Social A

Religion

Religion

Phone In

Phone In

Travel

Travel

Leisure

Leisure

Jazz Music

Jazz

Country Music

Country

National Music

Nation M

Oldies Music

Oldies

Folk Music

Folk M

Documentary

Document

Not specified

None

Note

You cannot use this function in some countries where no PTY (Programme Type selection) data is available.

1 Press (PTY/LIST) during FM reception until “PTY” appears.

The current programme type name appears if the station is transmitting the PTY data. “- - - - -” appears if the received station is not an RDS station, or if the RDS data has not been received.

2 Press (PTY/LIST) repeatedly until the desired programme type appears.

The programme types appear in the order shown in the above table. Note that you cannot select “None” (Not specified) for searching.

3 Push the SEEK/AMS control up or down. The unit starts searching for a station broadcasting the selected programme type. When the unit finds the programme, the programme type appears again for five seconds.

“NO” and the programme type appear alternately for five seconds if the unit cannot find the programme type. It then returns to the previously selected station.

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