What is Digital Radio?

Digital radio is a new way of receiving your favourite radio stations and at the same time opening up the airwaves to a whole selection of exciting new stations. Digital is the future of the medium itself, offering better sound quality and reception as well as the ability to receive web and data services on the move!

What are the Benefits of Digital Radio?

Greater Choice of Stations

Digital radio offers listeners a far wider choice of stations to tune in to. On average, digital radio listeners will be able to tune to 16 national and 16 regional and local commercial and BBC services.

Quality sound

Digital radio is to analogue what CDs were to vinyl. It promises to give listeners crystal clear sound, free from interference, fade and hiss.

Easy Tuning

Finding your favourite station is easy! There is no need to remember the station's frequency, as each station is identified on screen, by name. In addition to this, there is no need to retune. Previously, when listening to analogue radio in the car, your radio has had to be retuned to follow a signal as you travelled around. With digital radio, once you've chosen your station, you stay tuned to it all the time until you decide to switch.

On-screen Information

Your digital radio will be able to bring you further information in the form of scrolling text. This could be the latest headlines, city news, travel or weather information, football results, information about the programme itself or even, what's coming up next.

How to Receive Digital Radio

To listen to digital radio you will need a digital receiver. Many car manufacturers, such as Fiat, Honda, Mercedes, Alfa Romeo and BMW, are now offering them as an upgrade option when you buy a new car.

Digital One

Digital One is licensed to operate the UK's only national commercial digital multiplex. This multiplex carries ten commercial stations, offering listeners an unrivalled choice of both new and existing national analogue stations, which include: Classic FM TalkSPORT Virgin Radio Planet Rock Core Life One Word Prime Time TalkMONEY …and of course, ITN's new rolling news channel.

ITN

The ITN News Channel is the UK's first and only digital rolling news station and will bring you unrivalled news, money, sport, weather, travel and entertainment news from around the world in crystal clear digital sound between 6am and midnight, seven days a week, on the Digital One Network and 24 hours a day on Sky Digital. The channel will draw on the enormous resources of ITN including 45 years of experience in news coverage, nearly 1000 employees based in London and around the world offering unrivalled, up-to-the-minute coverage of all the world's news stories and of course, the most experience rolling news management team in the county.