New Radio numbers:

Analoguesat

Info from Sky Digi Online, Numbers will change at the end of February:

0101 BBC R1
0102 BBC R2
0103 BBC R3
0104 BBC R4 FM
0105 BBC R5 Live
0106 Classic FM
0107 Virgin Radio
0108 talkSPORT
0109 Classic Gold
0110 The Storm
0111 Planet Rock
0112 Core
0113 Capital Gold
0114 XFM
0115 BBC World Sv.
0116 BBC R Scot.
0117 BBC R Wales
0118 BBC R Ulster
0119 BBC Asian Nt.
0120 BBC 6 Music
0121 The Mix
0122 WRN Europe
0123 Premier
0124 Heart
0125 UCB Europe
0126 CrossRhythm
0127 Oneword
0128 smooth fm
0129 Solar Radio
0130 Panjab Radio
0131 BBC 7
0132 Prime Time
0133 Sunrise Radio
0134 UCB Bible
0135 UCB Talk
0136 UCB Insp
0137 1Xtra BBC
0138 TWR
0139 BBC R n Gael
0140 Pure Dance
0141 Raaj Radio
0142 RTE Europe
0143 BBC R4 LW
0144 BBC 5L SportX
0145 Club Asia
0146 Real Radio
0147 EWTN
0150 Sukh Sagar
0151 Asian Gold
0152 BBC R London
0153 The Villan
0154 BBC R Cymru
0155 Pulse Rated
0156 CalvaryRadio
0157 Globecast
0158 Gaydar Radio
0159 Family Radio
0160 RTE Radio 1
0161 Arrow-Rock
0162 CapitalDisney
0163 Apple FM
0164 RTE 2FM
0165 RTE Lyric fm
0166 RTE RnaG
0167 jazz fm
0168 Akash Radio
0169 Desi Radio
0170 The Hits
0171 Galaxy FM
0172 Smash Hits
0173 Kismat Radio
0174 Century Radio
0175 Capital FM
0176 Amrit Bani
0177 LBC 97.3
0178 Kiss
0179 Heat
0180 Magic
0181 Q
0182 MOJO
0183 Kerrang
0184 Radio
0185 Spectrum 1
0186 Liberty Radio
0187 Yarr Radio
0188 On Air
0189 Choice FM
0190 Radio London

BLUEPLATINUM

Bizzare ... existing radio stations should keep their current number prefixed with a 0. This system above will cause mass confusion.

An alternative would be to make them available on both the new number and the old number prefixed 0 for an interim period until listeners have got used to hearing the new number via on-air publicity.

My SKY box is connected to my surround sound system and I automatically press 908 to get my favorite station without even switching on the TV. Now I am going to have to go via the EPG until I can learn the new number

Analoguesat

You press "0" to access the radio numerical menu. You can see it now, but its not fully active. You get a speaker icon and a 3 digit number to key in. You will soon learn the new numbers.

They cant use the old and new numbers in parallell - many of the radio number series are being reallocated to tv channels on the same day. (850 - 874 is going into the new gaming & dating section)

Analoguesat

On the day of the change 908 will give you Friendly TV, not Classic FM!

Milkybarkid

If you access the same radio stations regularly it doesn't take long to remember the new nos.

What's confusing is there is BBC Radio London the local station, and Big L Radio London although Big L is a reincarnation of the former pirate station,and plays some great music.The other is more of a talk format.

David0

I have been pressing 0 for the last few weeks and have been geting a speaker icon but did not know what it was.

Zorba

Why were you pressing 0 for weeks ?

BLUEPLATINUM

No. The TV station numbers are 3 digits. So you can still have 850 for a TV station and 0850 for the radio station that used to live there.

It also seems bizarre that after BBC Radio 5 comes Classic FM not BBC radios 6 and 7. Surely this is an ideal time for them to rationalise such things.

Analoguesat

Mmm didnt word that last post very well. Yes the existing numbers are staying. No you cant reuse them in parallel eg 0850 / 850 as much of the 3 digit number series is being reallocated at the same time as the radio number changes. To run them in parallel, you would have to have 2 seperate number shuffles some weeks apart, which would cause double the confusion.

have to agree, but epg numbers are allocated in the order that stations joined the platform.Classic FM and others wouldnt appreciate getting bumped down the list just so all the BBC services could be together. And what happens if the BBC launches Radios 8 & 9 in the future?