{"id":1496,"date":"2018-11-11T13:06:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T13:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2018-11-11T13:06:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T13:06:47","slug":"more-dab-changes-following-sdl-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/2018\/11\/11\/more-dab-changes-following-sdl-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"More DAB Changes following SDL Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the expansion of the Sound Digital DAB multiplex, the UKs second commercial national multiplex, a further two stations have left local multiplexes.<\/p>\n<p>Fun Kids has left the Suffolk multiplex. Listeners in Suffolk will now need a DAB+ radio, as Fun Kids on Suffolk used the original format of DAB, but the national version uses DAB+ (not compatible will older DAB radios). However, Fun Kids is now available in stereo in Suffolk.<\/p>\n<p>Jazz FM has left the Trial Norwich small scale multiplex. Jazz FM also uses DAB+ on the Sound Digital multiplex, but this shouldn&#8217;t be an issue for listeners, as Jazz FM had recently been using DAB+ in Norwich. However, the bit rate on the national multiplex is lower, meaning that listeners may notice a slight drop in sound quality.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the Trial Norwich multiplex, Crackers Radio has taken over the slot previously occupied by Jazz FM, using 48 kbps stereo DAB+. Again, this station will require a DAB+ compatible radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the expansion of the Sound Digital DAB multiplex, the UKs second commercial national multiplex, a further two stations have left local multiplexes. Fun Kids has left the Suffolk multiplex. Listeners in Suffolk will now need a DAB+ radio, as Fun Kids on Suffolk used the original format of DAB, but the national version uses&#8230;<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/2018\/11\/11\/more-dab-changes-following-sdl-expansion\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,5,59],"tags":[283,307,130,186,34,58,298,295,196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}