{"id":1725,"date":"2019-06-06T11:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T11:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2019-06-06T11:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T11:23:02","slug":"heart-extra-and-smooth-extra-switch-to-dab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/2019\/06\/06\/heart-extra-and-smooth-extra-switch-to-dab\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Extra and Smooth Extra Switch to DAB+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global Radio has switched Heart Extra and Smooth Extra to DAB+. Both services operate on the D1 National multiplex.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst both stations are now in stereo, a number of listeners will loose access, as many older DAB radios are not compatible with the newer DAB+ format. Heart Extra is using a bit rate of 32 kbps, giving relatively poor audio quality. Smooth Extra is using the slightly higher bit rate of 40 kbps.<\/p>\n<p>This move frees up space on the D1 National multiplex, and will likely fuel rumours of the launch of a new station called Heart Dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Radio has switched Heart Extra and Smooth Extra to DAB+. Both services operate on the D1 National multiplex. Whilst both stations are now in stereo, a number of listeners will loose access, as many older DAB radios are not compatible with the newer DAB+ format. Heart Extra is using a bit rate of 32&#8230;<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/2019\/06\/06\/heart-extra-and-smooth-extra-switch-to-dab\/\">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":[13,59],"tags":[227,223,128,225,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725"}],"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=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottsradiosite.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}