Clear Channel to enhance radio ads with RDS

[struff's stuff]

At 10:49 AM 1/2/2004, it was written:
>If I'm not mistaken, the Feds have required auto makers to only display 
>the 8-character "station ID" field on RDS radios.  There is usually a 
>button you can press to scroll the "info" field -once- and then returns to 
>the ID field.  I think this took effect with 2003 model year.  Don't know 
>if aftermarket manufacturers are subject to this same ruling.


Mine is a 2002. It used to only give the superfluous info on CC stations 
until a few months or so ago, when there was some news about CC upgrading 
or changing to a different type of RDS system (I forget the actual 
details). It was somewhere around that time when they started adding the 
extra info on the main screen, *without* having to press the Info button.

In addition to WHEB and WGIR in NH, Boston's Kiss-108 is messed up, too. I 
often see things like "..Outkast" or "Timberlake" on the main screen. Many 
times those will stick on the display long after the song ends and through 
several subsequent songs that have nothing to do with the artist being 
displayed. A push of the Info button returns "No info" when it should be 
displaying the call letters or name or slogan or song detail (which is the 
way it works on every non-CC radio station).