Pop-up DAB station?

[french frank]

According to Ariel, Radio 2 will have a 'temporary digital station' dedicated to country music from 5-8 March. This will be the second time it has had such a station as it had one 'following the Eurovision Song Contest'.

What is the implication of this (if anything) for available digital capacity ? Why can it only do it 'temporarily'?

[Honoured Guest]

According to Ariel, Radio 2 will have a 'temporary digital station' dedicated to country music from 5-8 March. This will be the second time it has had such a station as it had one 'following the Eurovision Song Contest'.

What is the implication of this (if anything) for available digital capacity ? Why can it only do it 'temporarily'?

Re digital capacity, see answers 9, 10, 11 and 12 to the FAQs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/arti...urovision-faqs

Re 'temporarily', maybe it's because of the cost of the additional service, the marginal change to the bit rate of Radio 2 and Radio 6 Music, and licence permissions?

[french frank]

Re digital capacity, see answers 9, 10, 11 and 12 to the FAQs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/arti...urovision-faqs

Re 'temporarily', maybe it's because of the cost of the additional service, the marginal change to the bit rate of Radio 2 and Radio 6 Music, and licence permissions?

Thank you! 112 kbps instead of 128.... hmmm ...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Thank you! 112 kbps instead of 128.... hmmm ...

Diabolical!

[Bryn]

Thank you! 112 kbps instead of 128.... hmmm ...

And they have to make do with 128kbps on the iPlayer too, whereas Radio 3 has the 320kbps option.