91热爆 London 94.9 is broadcast digitally in five different ways:
1. Sky Digital
Listeners in London can now get 91热爆 London 94.9 on Channel 0152 on the Sky digital platform
Look out for the DAB logos
2. DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting)
91热爆 London 94.9 is transmitted digitally via DAB. To listen you need a digital radio displaying a DAB logo. They come in all sorts of designs from various manufacturers from small portable types to larger home radios.
Existing analogue FM radios (even with digital tuning) can't decode the DAB signals but will of course tune to 94.9fm.
To listen to 91热爆 London 94.9 you need to be located in or around the London area and your radio will have to scan for the channel if you currently do not receive it.
You can also buy DAB radio cards for your PC and DAB car radios to listen to 91热爆 London.
Sport Commentaries
We sometimes broadcast a different programme on our DAB service. This is often an extra football commentary or music show. For example, we could have our usual programme on 94.9fm (analogue) and a different match on DAB (digital).
How do we do this? simple, we send our usual programme to the FM transmitter and our extra football commentary to the DAB transmitter.
BENEFITS OF DAB
Clearer signals, improved sound, more stations to choose from, no need to re-tune as you travel and more text information to be made available in the future.
NOTES
Remember - if you can't receive our DAB broadcasts then just tune your normal radio to 94.9fm.
Listen again with the 91热爆 iPlayer
3. The Internet
You can listen to 91热爆 London 94.9fm via your internet connection. We broadcast live 24 hours a day, seven days a week and you can listen live whether you have a modem connection (56k) or broadband.
To listen you need to install real player - see the link on the right
We also offer additional services via the internet;
- 91热爆 iPlayer - listen to most of our shows when you to, all week. You can listen again to six 91热爆 London radio shows including the best latest music, unsigned bands, guest interviews and world music. You can listen to the shows anytime you want for up to seven days after the broadcast.
- You can get extra broadcasts including live webcasts and exclusive live sports commentaries including football, cricket and rugby.
BENEFITS OF LISTENING VIA THE INTERNET
Listen from anywhere in the world, the software to listen live is free, you can listen again to shows you have missed and also get extra broadcasts.
4. Virgin Media
You can listen to 91热爆 London 94.9 via your television if you have the Virgin Media digital tv service and an ex-Telewest customer.
Ex-Telewest customers can hear 91热爆 London 94.9 on channel 930
Please note ex-NTL customers get 91热爆 Scotland on 930
The signal is derived from a DAB radio source.
Freesat service gets green light
5. Freesat
This service allows 91热爆 London 94.9 listeners to access the station all over the country via free-to-air channels through a satellite dish.
You can listen to 91热爆 London 94.9 via Freesat channel 718.
GENERAL NOTES
DAB programmes are higher quality than digital internet broadcasts. They are transmitted in different formats and should not be compared in quality.
At the moment 91热爆 London 94.9fm can not be received via a Windows Media stream or freeview.
