About Rds - Pioneer XV-DV1000 Operating Instructions Manual

Listening to the radio

About RDS

(European 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 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.
This system 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 broad-
caster 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.
This unit can search for and display the
following program types:
None (no program type)
News
Current Affairs
Information
Sport
Education
Drama
Culture
Science
Varied Speech
Pop Music
Rock Music
Easy Listening
Light Classics M
Serious Classics
Other Music
Weather & Metr
Finance
Children's Progs
Social Affairs
Religion
Phone In
Travel & Touring
Leisure & Hobby
Jazz Music
Country Music
National Music
Oldies Music
Folk Music
Documentary
In addition, there are program types, Alarm
Test and Alarm-Alarm!, used for exceptional
emergency announcements. You can't
search for this, but the tuner will switch
automatically to this RDS broadcast signal.
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