[cma-l] RDS etc joys.....

[Ian Hickling]

RDS etc joys.....Actions Neal Younger   16/01/2015  DocumentsTo: Ian HicklingCc: PHILIP FURNIVALL, cat at transplanuk.comOutlook.com Active View1 attachment (1739.9 KB)RDS The Radio Data System.pdfView onlineDownload as zipMy expert colleague advises:The PI code is changed on the service so that it doesn't match the neighbouring service: Heart NE during 'programmes' C3A8 (i.e. same audio across all transmitters in the region) Heart NE during 'adverts' C6A8 (i.e. different audio across transmitters in the region) Capital NE during 'programmes' C371 Capital NE during 'adverts' C471 Smooth NE during 'programmes' C3A0 Smooth NE during 'adverts' C4A0
That's the way to do it!;-)See attached tome on the subject

    

    On 15/01/15 18:12, James Cridland
      wrote:

    
    You can have dynamically-switching PI codes,
      incidentally. Global Radio does this, and that would fix the issue
      you had.

      

      Listen to Heart along the M4 corridor and it'll happily switch you
      between all the Hearts (ex London) - UNLESS they are in an ad
      break or news, when you won't be switched, since the content is
      different.
      

      
      The same goes for DAB, too... http://www.mediauk.com/article/34516/dab-service-following-test-routes-now-live
      

      
      

      
      

      
      

      On Thu Jan 15 2015 at 5:17:10 PM Eddie
        Stuart <eddie at kcr.fm>
        wrote:

        
           That's always been the
            problem that KCR had - along with others, until October 2014
            we were a Community evenings only Opt-Out from commercial
            MFR using their frequency in our area.

            

            Day time, you drive across the North of Scotland and stay on
            MFR just like Radio 2 does. Evenings and as you drove, the
            content changed as your radio thought that we were all MFR.

            

            Of course, our largest population centre, Elgin, had to be
            right on the border between 97.4 & 102.8, so radios
            constantly switched back & forth between MFR in
            Inverness and us.

            

            MFR have been very good to us, but Oh the joy of our own
            frequency and the disappearance of this problem!!

            

            Eddie

            

            On 15/01/15 13:19, Associated Broadcast Consultants
              wrote:

            
            
              Re: RDS PI codes.
                

                
                It is used often by stations when carrying the same
                  content.  I can imagine with stations not carrying the
                  same content it could become troublesome in fringe
                  areas - with the radio ping-ponging between stations. 
                  Probably understandable if you are travelling, but
                  intolerable if you lived or worked in one of those
                  areas!
                  

                  
                  -- 

                    Glyn Roylance - Principal Consultant
                      Associated

                          Broadcast Consultants
                      

                      
                      

                      
                    
                  
                  

                    
 		 	   		   		 	   		  
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