Traffic Info on BBC Radio Suffolk
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For weeks now, presenters at BBC Radio Suffolk seem completely unable to operate the Traffic Info buttons. Many times it flashes on and off, interrupting whatever I'm listening to, without any traffic info and more recently not working when it should do.
Have others experienced this?
Have others experienced this?
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Sounds like a problem with the new Vilor studios..
Do you mean Mark Murphy on the Mark Murphy show on BBC Radio Suffolk with Mark Murphy!
Does anyone love their own name any more than him?
Have they stopped using it?
BBC Essex worked fine so it's not my radio.
My gripe is why can't they switch just as the travel starts and then switch back as soon as it ends. This morning I had Liz Green on BBC Radio Leeds inanely rambling on about saveloys and having some tedious banter with the traffic guy before I had to manually switch back to the sanity of Radio 4.
Also quite often on the 7.30pm travel news the link doesn't kick in until maybe half way through the report.
BBC kent are just as bad and i don't even live in Kent!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/
TF has t be signalled a few seconds before the item so as to allow the signal to propagate and your radio to switch .. They all take different times..
But many presenters get it very wrong ,,,
i rang the station, twice, and whoever I spoke to had no idea if it was working or not and asked me to tell them if it was on or off. Doh !!!
The local station is unlikely to know and your comments are unlikely to have been noted
.. That is why I suggested complaining via the BBC website or 03700 100. 222
That will get logged , the log read by people ,
some one in LR and may be distribution asked to comment .
Also if there are many complaints it may highlight where in what is an elderly and complex system there are errors ....
. Bearing in mind some re engineering with the new transmitter contract ....
Those tones don't directly control the receivers, they control the RDS coders at the transmitter site.
BBC radio use a different system, that fires the flags from a server in London, and distributes the flags to the relevant local and national transmitters. Has to be that way
for the Beeb, because R1-4 and neighbouring BBC LRs will carry the flags. The ILR DTMF system is very good though, and far more operationally foolproof.