Pioneer VSX-859RDS-G - Manual (Page 63)

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Using the Tuner
OPERA
TION
NEWS
AFFAIRS Current affairs
INFORMATION General information
SPORT
EDUCATION Educational material
DRAMA Radio plays or serials
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
CLASSICAL ‘Serious’ classical music
OTHER M Other music not fitting any of the above categories
WEATHER
FINANCE Stock market reports, commerce, trading, etc.
CHILDREN Children’s entertainment
SOC. AFFAIR Social affairs
RELIGION
PHONE IN
TRAVEL Holiday-type travel rather than traffic announcements.
LEISURE Leisure interests and hobbies
JAZZ
COUNTRY M Country music
NATIONAL M Popular music in a language other than English
OLDIES M Popular music from the ’50s
FOLK M Folk music
DOCUMENTARY Documentaries
An Introduction to RDS & EON
Radio Data System, or RDS as it's usually known, is a system used by FM radio stations to provide listeners
with various kinds of 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 best feature of RDS is that you can search automatically by type of program. So, if you felt like
listening to jazz, you could 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.
The receiver lets you display three different kinds of RDS information: Radio Text, Program Service Name, and
Program Type.
Radio Text (RT) is messages sent by the radio station. These can be anything the broadcaster chooses—a talk
radio station might give out it 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.
The receiver can search for and display the following program types:
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 this RDS broadcast signal.