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JACK question - help please...

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jeff715

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I am not sure what the thing on my FM radio in the car is that shows the song title and artist - RDP? Something like that... Anyway, this morning on JACK it is flashing "Do you remember the night of Sept 21st?". What does that mean? Anyone? Is there an event tonight? The Jackin' Around Town page has been blank all week so that is of no help.
 
Jack Garrett said:
Here's a thought...Earth, Wind & Fire's hit song "September" mentions September 21.

CJ
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So you are saying it is a technical glitch or JACK is being random? That is JACKed up! ;)
 
It's called RDS. RDS does not usually show song lyrics. It just shows song titles and artist(s) names.

It will sometimes show non music events such as data about the ads, etc.

R
 
Robert Bass said:
It's called RDS. RDS does not usually show song lyrics. It just shows song titles and artist(s) names.

It will sometimes show non music events such as data about the ads, etc.

R
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Well, I could only make out the R but the letters are too small for my 40 year old eyes. :-\
 
Awwwww :(

Well FWIW I just looked at Jack's RDS display, and they are periodically scrolling that "Do you reemmber..." line. I saw this while Man In Motion from John Parr was playing.

R
 
jeff715 said:
Today it is saying "Have a nice fall". ;D
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Not the kind of thing you want to read, while driving over a bridge! :eek:

R
 
When I was at the radio stations which shall not be named, I remember they were discussing putting ads on the RDS stream... like "buy nike shoes" but then the argument came up that if they did that, and someone was reading that when they got into a wreck, it might look bad. So they didn't.

I've seen Jack scroll all sorts of stuff on their RDS. The other day they were scrolling call them for a chance to win a wii. Something like that anyway. They use it for more than just song/artist - so far one of the few stations I've seen do anything like that with it.
 
radi0chik said:
...but then the argument came up that if they did that, and someone was reading that when they got into a wreck, it might look bad. So they didn't.
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And that was a very smart move. I've heard a few people claim that even just showing the song info is not a good idea, for that very reason.

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