Radio apps typically work by streaming radio via the internet. This uses data, so it can be expensive to listen to the radio on your phone unless you have an unlimited data plan. This is one of the reasons why lots of people want to know if you can get a radio app that picks …
In September 2017, British digital radio manufacturer Pure released ‘Prestige’ editions of their Evoke H4 and H6 radios. If you’re interested in buying the Evoke H4 or H6, you might be confused about how Pure’s Prestige editions are different to regular Evoke radios. The only real difference between the Prestige H4 and H6 and the …
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BBC Radio 1 is the UK’s most popular chart music station and the third most popular radio station in the country overall. Radio 1 broadcasts on FM, DAB and the internet, but not on AM radio. The FM frequency for Radio 1 varies depending on your location in the country, but it will be from …
The mobile phone has increasingly become the device of choice and is pushing other devices into the margins. That’s largely due to capacity and functionality having increased tremendously so that the mobile phone is now capable of much more than just making phone calls and sending and receiving text messages. Phones are now commonly used …
By 2017, DAB radio was available in 38 countries, amounting to 2,100 services and 420 million people able to receive them. However, British visitors to Spain and expats living there will want to know what’s available for them. DAB Stations Available in Spain Spain was something of a DAB pioneer, beginning broadcasts in 1998 that …
BBC Radio 1Xtra is an urban music station that has been on the air since 2002. It’s only broadcast on digital radio, digital TV and the internet, so you won’t be able to find it on an AM/FM radio. On DAB it uses the BBC National DAB multiplex, which broadcasts on the frequency 12B (225.648 …
Planet Rock is the UK’s most popular rock radio station. It’s a digital-only radio station, which means you can’t receive it on AM or FM. To tune into Planet Rock on DAB radio, you don’t need to know a frequency as you just have to scroll through the stations available on your radio. If your …
Test transmissions of DAB radio started in the UK in 1990 and were followed by a public launch in September 1995. Since then, the UK network has grown to become the world’s largest with 103 transmitters and almost 300 radio stations at the last count. That growth has led to a decreasing emphasis on AM …
There’s a large choice of pocket DAB radios on the market, but do any of them have Bluetooth? Before getting into this topic, it’s important to point out that a radio can either have a Bluetooth transmitter or a Bluetooth receiver. If it has a Bluetooth transmitter this means you will be able to listen …
Kisstory is a digital-only radio station that plays hip hop, R ‘n’ B and dance music. Kisstory broadcasts on the D1 national DAB multiplex and Freeview, but not on FM radio. On DAB radio you don’t need to remember a frequency to tune into, so you can just scroll through the stations available and select …
