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It's great having a decent RDS radio & TA function's really helpful most of the time. :)
But why does it have to interupt the traffic news you're already listening to with a far less relevant one, timed to perfection so you miss the 5 seconds that matter while you try to cancel the interuption? :x

Is this a gift from Clarion, or did Peugeot decide it would be a good idea, does anyone know?

It would just help to know the nationality of the genius responsible, so I can rant appropriately.
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Now see, that's just bad planning by the radio stations. I noticed last week that some radio stations appear to put the travel reports on at pretty obscure times, like 8 and 38 mins past the hour, but that's just the radio stations getting together to not coincide with each other.

What I hate is when they forget to flick the switch back and you end up with 5 mins of some local shyte that you don't want to listen to. :?
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DaiRees wrote:some local shyte that you don't want to listen to
....Bringing you a better music mix....

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Can't say I ever listen to them :cheesy:
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Welton wrote:
DaiRees wrote:some local shyte that you don't want to listen to
....Bringing you a better music mix....

:roll:
:lol: our local radio stations have a total playlist of about 15 songs :lol:
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:oops: :oops: Have to say being away at the weekend using my sat nav and traffic reports. It switched to a so called trafic report and it was talking about pork sausages and dicky bird was saying about the best ones in the UK and winning awards are in wolverhampton apparently :lol: :lol: Not a mention of traffic :evil: :evil: :evil:
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DaiRees wrote: our local radio stations have a total playlist of about 15 songs :lol:
Tell me about it, Tina Turner, Madonna, Michael J, etc etc.... all the crap with cheap royalties over and over again.

My favourites at the moment are Wogan on Radio 2 (the Janet & John stories and listeners emails) and I like Moyles "car park catch phrase" etc.
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