Radio Data System - Program Types

Program Types

The following table lists the RDS and RBDS program type (PTY) codes and their meanings:

PTY code RDS program type (EU) RBDS program type (North America)
0 No programme type or undefined No program type or undefined
1 News News
2 Current affairs Information
3 Information Sports
4 Sport Talk
5 Education Rock
6 Drama Classic rock
7 Culture Adult hits
8 Science Soft rock
9 Varied Top 40
10 Pop music Country
11 Rock music Oldies
12 Easy listening Soft
13 Light classical Nostalgia
14 Serious classical Jazz
15 Other music Classical
16 Weather Rhythm and blues
17 Finance Soft rhythm and blues
18 Children’s programmes Language
19 Social affairs Religious music
20 Religion Religious talk
21 Phone-in Personality
22 Travel Public
23 Leisure College
24 Jazz music Unassigned
25 Country music Unassigned
26 National music Unassigned
27 Oldies music Unassigned
28 Folk music Unassigned
29 Documentary Weather
30 Alarm test Emergency test
31 Alarm Emergency

The later RBDS standard made no attempt to match the original RDS plan, therefore several identical radio formats were given different numbers, including jazz, weather, sports, and rock. Other similar formats such as varied/college and phone-in/talk are also mismatched. This is mainly a problem for portable radios taken overseas.

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