Multiplex Changes

• Herts Beds Bucks:
  • Added: Shine 879 (DAB 80 Kbps; Pop Music)

Multiplex Changes

• D1 National:
  • UCB 1 - Moved (Originally removed, then added)
  • GB News Radio - Moved (Originally removed, then added)

Multiplex Changes

D1 National

• No changes. (All removed channels were immediately re-added with the same name and parameters, essentially resulting in no net change.)

Multiplex Changes

• Herts Beds Bucks:
  • Added: Heart 4 Counties (DAB 128 Kbps; Pop Music)
  • Moved: 1047 SUBJAM (DAB 64 Kbps; Other Music)

DAB Radio Changes

D1 National Multiplex:

• Added:
  • Heart 70s (32 Kbps, Pop Music)
  • Gold Radio UK (40 Kbps, Easy Listening)
  • KISS (32 Kbps, Pop Music)
  • Capital XTRA (40 Kbps, Pop Music)
  • Magic Xmas (32 Kbps, Pop Music)
  • Heart 80s (32 Kbps, Pop Music)
  • UCB 1 (24 Kbps, Religion)
  • Heart Xmas (32 Kbps, Pop Music)
  • Hits Radio 90s (32 Kbps, Pop Music)
  • Capital UK (40 Kbps, Pop Music)
  • Heart UK (40 Kbps, Pop Music)
  • GB News Radio (24 Kbps, News)
  • Smooth UK (40 Kbps, Easy Listening)

BBC National DAB Multiplex:

• Added:
  • BBC Radio 4 Extra (64 Kbps, Talk)
  • BBC Radio 6 Music (112 Kbps, Rock Music)
  • BBC Radio 5 Live (64 Kbps, News)

Multiplex Changes

• D1 National:
  • Removed: Hits Radio 90s
  • Removed: KISS
  • Removed: Heart Xmas
  • Removed: UCB 1
  • Removed: GB News Radio
  • Removed: Magic Xmas
  • Removed: Heart 80s
  • Removed: Heart UK
  • Removed: Smooth UK
  • Removed: Gold Radio UK
  • Removed: Heart 70s
  • Removed: Capital XTRA
  • Removed: Capital UK

Multiplex Changes

• Herts Beds Bucks:
  • Added: Capital UK (DAB 128 Kbps; Pop Music)
  • Added: Smooth 3Counties (DAB 128 Kbps; Easy Listening)
  • Removed: Capital UKSmooth 3Counties
  • Removed: Heart 4 Counties
  • Removed: Smooth 3Counties
  • Removed: Grt Hits BBH
  • Removed: 1047 SUBJAM
  • Removed: Hits Radio BBH
  • Added: Grt Hits BBH (DAB 112 Kbps; Pop Music)
  • Added: 1047 SUBJAM (DAB 64 Kbps; Other Music)
  • Added: Heart 4 Counties (DAB 128 Kbps; Pop Music)
  • Added: Hits Radio BBH (DAB 112 Kbps; Pop Music)

Sunrise Radio UK changed from 56 Kbps (DAB) to 32 Kbps (DAB+) [SDL National    ]

Sunrise Hits UK  added to SDL National     (DAB+ 24 Kbps; Pop Music)

DAB/DAB+ Channel Updates - D1 National Multiplex

New Channels Added:

• Absolute Radio (DAB+ 40 Kbps; Rock Music)
• Capital XTRA (DAB+ 40 Kbps; Pop Music)
• Gold Radio UK (DAB+ 40 Kbps; Easy Listening)
• Grt Hits Rad 70s (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)
• Heart 70s (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)
• Hits Radio 00s (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)
• KISSTORY (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)
• KISS (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)
• LBC News (DAB+ 32 Kbps; News)
• Magic Radio (DAB+ 40 Kbps; Pop Music)
• Magic Xmas (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)
• Radio X (DAB+ 40 Kbps; Rock Music)
• Smooth Chill (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Other Music)
• talkSPORT (DAB 64 Kbps; Sport)

Digital Radio Changes

• D1 National:
  • Removed: Gold Radio UK, KISSTORY, Capital XTRA, Radio X, Heart 70s, LBC News, Hits Radio 00s, Smooth Chill, Magic Radio, Grt Hits Rad 70s, Absolute Radio, KISS, talkSPORT, Magic Xmas

cross-posted from: https://libretechni.ca/post/321504

MythTV is a great tool for browsing broadcast TV schedules and scheduling recordings. It’s a shame so many people have suckered for cloud streaming services, which have a subscription cost and yet they collect data on you regardless. Broadcast TV lately has almost no commercial interruptions and of course no tracking. It’s gratis as well. If they bring in commercials, MythTV can auto-detect them and remove them.

FM and DAB radio signals include EPG. So the scheduling metadata is out there. But apparently no consumer receivers make use of it. They just show album art.

There are no jazz stations where I live. Only a few stations which sometimes play jazz. It’s a shame the EPG is not being exploited. Broadcast radio would be so much better if we could browse a MythTV schedule and select programs to record.

I suppose it’s not just a software problem. There are FM tuner USB sticks (not great). Nothing for DAB. And nothing comparable to the SiliconDust designs, which are tuners that connect to ethernet.

• BBC Radio 4 moved on BBC National DAB: bitrate changed to 112 Kbps, genre updated to Talk

I have these receivers:

1. TechniSat TechniRadio1 (shitty amp/speaker quality)
2. Envivo Retro (shitty amp/speaker quality; antenna: 66cm)
3. Envivo PO-1585 (good amp/speaker quality; antenna: 90cm)

I won’t talk about receiver ① because it behaves the same as receiver ②. ② & ③ are the same brand but they behave differently. Envivo is perhaps just an Aldi rebranding from different makers.

② finds 101 signals but only “BBC WS” (World Service) from the BBC. Most importantly, it can tune BBC WS at any time.

③ finds 57 or 72 signals (probably depending on weather at the time of the scan). It always finds these BBC stations:

• BBC WS
• BBCAsian
• BBC R6M (radio 6 Music)
• BBC R5L (radio 5 Live)
• BBC R4Ex (radio 4 Extra)
• BBC R3
• BBC R2
• BBC R1
• BBC R1x (radio 1 Xtra)

③ cannot tune any of the BBC stations. It only finds them. Exceptionally, a couple floors above ground it tuned BBC WS, once. Apart from that one time, it either says “connecting…” indefinitately, or “service not available”.

WTF is going on here? It might be normal for one receiver to have a better tuner than another, but in this case one finds many more BBC stations but tunes none of them. We might speculate that the scanning algorithm of the radio that finds more stations just has a lower signal/quality threshold for what it accepts, but the one finding more BBC finds fewer stations overall.

It’s a shame that despite the invasion of the Internet of Shit (IoT), radio makers have not realised it would be greatly useful to be able to attach a radio to the LAN to access tuning info from a PC.

update

③ was bought 2nd hand. I scanned and rescanned many times. It kept finding many BBC stations that apparently do not exist. Then I did a factory reset and a purge (w/out really knowing what purge meant in the context it appeared). The new scan then yielded mostly the same stations as ②, but a subset thereof.

So I’m calling this a software defect in receiver ③. Scanning should not require a factory reset.

• D1 National:
  • Added: Heart Xmas (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Rock Music)
  • Removed: Radio X Oasis

Heart 4 Counties removed from Herts Beds Bucks

BBC 3CR removed from Herts Beds Bucks

Heart 4 Counties added to Herts Beds Bucks (DAB 128 Kbps; Pop Music)

BBC 3CR added to Herts Beds Bucks (DAB 128 Kbps; Talk)

I was reading EU Directive 2019/882 which mandates accessibility requirements for products and services -- not because I am disabled or impaired but I’m always looking for legal angles to use against enshitified products/services or to liberate data. Not much interesting law except this:

Section IV
Additional accessibility requirements related to specific services
…
(b) Services providing access to audiovisual media services:
(i) providing electronic programme guides (EPGs) which are perceivable, operable, understandable and robust and provide information about the availability of accessibility;

IIUC, the EPG tech is already baked into DAB radio standards. But many broadcasters do not exploit the option, and even fewer receivers make use of it. In fact I have never seen a DAB radio that exploits EPG info (only album art and metadata for what’s playing at the moment).

It falls a bit short of being complete. Broadcast services may have a legal obligation to send EPG info, but I see no requirement for hardware to exploit it.

(hope no one is bothered by the post-brexit irrelevance of this.. it’s the only free-world DAB forum in the threadiverse)

Smooth 3Counties added to Herts Beds Bucks (DAB 128 Kbps; Easy Listening)

Capital UK added to Herts Beds Bucks (DAB 128 Kbps; Pop Music)

Shine 879 added to Herts Beds Bucks (DAB 80 Kbps; Pop Music)

Capital UK removed from Herts Beds Bucks

Shine 879 removed from Herts Beds Bucks

Smooth 3Counties removed from Herts Beds Bucks

BBC Radio1Dance added to BBC National DAB (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)

BBC Radio1Anthms added to BBC National DAB (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)

BBC Radio3Unwind added to BBC National DAB (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Arts)

GB News Radio removed from D1 National

Heart 90s removed from D1 National

UCB 2 removed from D1 National

Heart 00s removed from D1 National

Radio X Oasis removed from D1 National

LBC removed from D1 National

Heart UK removed from D1 National

Magic Radio removed from D1 National

Smooth Chill removed from D1 National

Capital XTRA removed from D1 National

Grt Hits Rad 70s removed from D1 National

Heart 70s removed from D1 National

KISSTORY removed from D1 National

LBC News removed from D1 National

talkSPORT removed from D1 National

Magic Xmas removed from D1 National

Capital DANCE removed from D1 National

Capital UK removed from D1 National

Grt Hits Rad 80s removed from D1 National

UCB 1 removed from D1 National

Smooth UK removed from D1 National

Gold Radio UK removed from D1 National

Hits Radio 00s removed from D1 National

Hits Radio 90s removed from D1 National

Hits Radio 90s added to D1 National (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)

talkSPORT added to D1 National (DAB 64 Kbps; Sport)

Capital XTRA added to D1 National (DAB+ 40 Kbps; Pop Music)

UCB 1 added to D1 National (DAB+ 24 Kbps; Pop Music)

Radio X removed from D1 National

Smooth Relax removed from D1 National

Absolute Radio removed from D1 National

KISS removed from D1 National

Radio X Oasis added to D1 National (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)

Hits Radio 00s added to D1 National (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)

Smooth UK added to D1 National (DAB+ 40 Kbps; Easy Listening)

Smooth Relax added to D1 National (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Easy Listening)

Capital DANCE added to D1 National (DAB+ 40 Kbps; Pop Music)

Grt Hits Rad 70s added to D1 National (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)

Gold Radio UK added to D1 National (DAB+ 40 Kbps; Easy Listening)

Absolute Radio added to D1 National (DAB+ 40 Kbps; Rock Music)

Grt Hits Rad 80s added to D1 National (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)

Magic Xmas added to D1 National (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)

Heart 90s added to D1 National (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)

Heart 70s added to D1 National (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)

Heart 00s added to D1 National (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)

Radio X added to D1 National (DAB+ 40 Kbps; Rock Music)

KISS added to D1 National (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)

Capital UK added to D1 National (DAB+ 40 Kbps; Pop Music)

LBC News added to D1 National (DAB+ 32 Kbps; News)

Smooth Chill added to D1 National (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Other Music)

Magic Radio added to D1 National (DAB+ 40 Kbps; Pop Music)

LBC added to D1 National (DAB 64 Kbps; Talk)

KISSTORY added to D1 National (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)

UCB 2 added to D1 National (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Religion)

GB News Radio added to D1 National (DAB+ 24 Kbps; News)

Heart UK added to D1 National (DAB+ 40 Kbps; Pop Music)

HITS RADIO CHIL changed to Hits Radio Chil [SDL National ]

HITS RADIO UK changed to Hits Radio BBH [Herts Beds Bucks]

BBC Radio1 removed from BBC National DAB

BBC Radio2 removed from BBC National DAB

BBC Radio3 removed from BBC National DAB

BBC Radio4 removed from BBC National DAB

BBC Radio5Live removed from BBC National DAB

BBC Radio6Music removed from BBC National DAB

BBC Radio1 added to BBC National DAB (DAB 128 Kbps; Pop Music)

BBC Radio2 added to BBC National DAB (DAB 128 Kbps; Pop Music)

BBC Radio3 added to BBC National DAB (DAB 160 Kbps; Arts)

BBC Radio4 added to BBC National DAB (DAB 128 Kbps; Talk)

BBC Radio6Music added to BBC National DAB (DAB 128 Kbps; Rock Music)

BBC Radio5Live added to BBC National DAB (DAB 64 Kbps; News)

Magic Xmas added to D1 National (DAB+ 32 Kbps; Pop Music)

KISS changed from 40 Kbps (DAB+) to 32 Kbps (DAB+) [D1 National ]

KISSTORY changed from 40 Kbps (DAB+) to 32 Kbps (DAB+) [D1 National ]

HITS RADIO 00s changed to Hits Radio 00s [D1 National ]

Hits Radio 00s changed from 40 Kbps (DAB+) to 32 Kbps (DAB+) [D1 National ]

HITS RADIO 90s changed to Hits Radio 90s [D1 National ]

Hits Radio 90s changed from 40 Kbps (DAB+) to 32 Kbps (DAB+) [D1 National ]

Capital UK changed from Kbps () to 128 Kbps (DAB) [Herts Beds Bucks]

1047 SUBJAM changed from Kbps () to 64 Kbps (DAB) [Herts Beds Bucks]

Grt Hits BBH changed from Kbps () to 112 Kbps (DAB) [Herts Beds Bucks]

Shine 879 changed from Kbps () to 80 Kbps (DAB) [Herts Beds Bucks]

BBC 3CR changed from Kbps () to 128 Kbps (DAB) [Herts Beds Bucks]

MKFM changed from Kbps () to 112 Kbps (DAB) [Herts Beds Bucks]

HITS RADIO UK changed from Kbps () to 112 Kbps (DAB) [Herts Beds Bucks]

MKFM removed from Herts Beds Bucks

HITS RADIO UK removed from Herts Beds Bucks

Grt Hits BBH removed from Herts Beds Bucks

Shine 879 removed from Herts Beds Bucks

BBC 3CR removed from Herts Beds Bucks

Capital UK removed from Herts Beds Bucks

Capital UK added to Herts Beds Bucks (DAB 128 Kbps; Pop Music)

Shine 879 added to Herts Beds Bucks (DAB 80 Kbps; Pop Music)

MKFM added to Herts Beds Bucks (DAB 112 Kbps; Pop Music)

HITS RADIO UK added to Herts Beds Bucks (DAB 112 Kbps; Pop Music)

Grt Hits BBH added to Herts Beds Bucks (DAB 112 Kbps; Pop Music)

BBC 3CR added to Herts Beds Bucks (DAB 128 Kbps; Talk)

1047 SUBJAM removed from Herts Beds Bucks

1047 SUBJAM added to Herts Beds Bucks (DAB 64 Kbps; Other Music)