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RDS fail

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Fieldtech1

OK im driving through east central Texas this weekend, scanning the dial and landed on a station playing Kid Rock/ Sheryl Crow's song Picture. Scrolling across the screen is "Kid Rock ft Sheryl Crow Picture (Sh*tty Web File).mp3" but with the actual "s" word. OOOPS Yes the song sounded like a 64kbps mp3 file and someone annotated it as such in the playout system without thinking how it would go out over the RDS stream. I listened for a while and every title on RDS was the actual file name from the playout system, liners, music beds, spots and all. Let this be a cautionary tale.

BTW could this illicit an FCC fine?
 
No, it would not...

Standards have fallen. You could say that on the air (in a format targeted at adults) and get no troubles. RDS definitely won't cause trouble with that word.
 
Where can you say "shitty web file" on the air and get away with it?

Standards may have fallen, but I sure don't hear any of "those words" on the air. Especially after the great boob escape of 2003, when the "bullshit" in Money got bleeped, along with "who the F are you" in Who Are You. Songs that had both been played for 30 years uncensored.
 
Things are really different in different countries. Was watching "Spongebob" on the Dutch Nickelodeon some time ago, with Dutch subtitles.

Spongebob said: "This is not good."
Which was subtitled in Dutch as: "Shit."

;D
 
I should also add that any comments I need to note about a song are in my music database... Not the automation.

My RDS is filtered to display music items only. When they are not playing, I have 10 Generic 'Text Strings' that inform my listeners about things like our apps, phone # to call in, advertising #, etc...
 
hvz said:
Things are really different in different countries. Was watching "Spongebob" on the Dutch Nickelodeon some time ago, with Dutch subtitles.

Spongebob said: "This is not good."
Which was subtitled in Dutch as: "Shit."

;D
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I interchange those two all the time!
 
chriscollins said:
I should also add that any comments I need to note about a song are in my music database... Not the automation.

My RDS is filtered to display music items only. When they are not playing, I have 10 Generic 'Text Strings' that inform my listeners about things like our apps, phone # to call in, advertising #, etc...
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How is this set up? Does your RDS box do this or is it a feature in your automation?

I am about to configure RDS on an LPFM station that is running StationPlaylist. It will filter what gets sent to metadata and RDS based on length but currently doesn't have category-based filtering. When a filtered item comes up, nothing is sent to the RDS so it just "sits" on the last title. I'd like to have some "filler" items to use but I don't think the capability is there with what I have, so I may just have to send the DPS Off command prior to dayparts when I don't want titles showing over RDS. The box will then just send out a static callsign in the PS field.

It would look dumb for us to show "Hits of Yesteryear Segment 1" or other internal codes on the RDS. ;D
 
I use a third party program from BE... The Radio Experience. It's reasonable in price for the base features. It filters, works with many automation systems, and can also update Twitter Feeds and send out Tune In info via their API.
 
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