[BC] RDS numbers?

[Bernie Courtney]

At a certain NYC station a jock, who will remain nameless, created a 'song' in the stations automation system that contained no audio, just a few seconds of recorded silence.  This allowed him to go edit the RDS text associated with that song, drag it into a log, and 'play' it, sending whatever string he entered out to the RDS encoder.

This was used most frequently to display the cell phone number of a randomly selected staffer, usually late at night, so anybody in a car (presumably with a cell phone not far away) would see "201-555-1212".

Having been on the receiving end of this prank, I can tell you more people have RDS then one might think LOL

Bernie

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From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of RichardBJohnson at comcast.net
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 5:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [BC] RDS numbers?

>From what I've seen most all the late model vehicles
have radios with RDS. However, some drivers have
never looked at the instruction manual so the displays
sometimes are static, while many can move and display
long text strings.

On my Bose (a junky radio), I have been amused by
the number of times I've seen "secret" messages
being displayed --like, "John, please call the studio."
or, "...the baby is a boy..."

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