Hi Nicolas,

merci bien for the info! My french is not the best, but i could get most of the
text in the link you gave below. Babelfish was also a bit helpful :) Good to
know that France is experimenting with an alternating PS.

Cheers,
Markus

--- In rdsforum@yahoogroups.com, "Nicolas Croiset (VDL)" <ncroiset@...> wrote:
>
> At 15:49 19/05/2009 +0000, you wrote:
> >Hi all!
> >
> >I'm working on products which also include a FM Radio receiver
> >capable of displaying RDS information (PS, AF...). The FM Radio
> >software used also has the option to save stations, along with their
> >PS name, and display some stations in a station list.
> >
> >We are currently thinking of some improvements for our software,
> >like automatically saving the PS name for a station when it was
> >received and/or saving it while autosearching for stations. Until
> >now, we didn't include this solution as we are aware of radio
> >stations which violate the RDS specifications and use a non-standard
> >(changing/scrolling) PS station name. To avoid our customers having
> >stupid names in their station list like "Burgers 99ct", we are
> >wondering how many stations in this world still violate the RDS
specification.
>
> Hello Markus,
>
>
> In France we are using alternate PS, The french radio authority
> launch an experimentation about that feature.
>
> cf : http://www.csa.fr/actualite/decisions/decisions_detail.php?id=128320
>
> Sorry it is in french.
>
> Bye.
>