How to find BBC Music Jazz/FAQs

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BBC Music Jazz is a temporary pop up digital radio service available for FOUR DAYS on digital radio, online and via the iPlayerRadio app. The service will be on air from 10th – 14th November bringing all jazz enthusiasts a feast of jazz treats with presenters from across BBC Radio as well as celebrity jazz fans and a collaboration with Jazz FM.

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You can listen via a DAB digital radio, online and on mobile / tablet devices from the BBC iPlayerRadio app.

BBC Music Jazz should appear after BBC Asian Network in the station list. NB: Some radios may display the service as BBC Jazz which should also appear after BBC Asian Network. Some radios automatically find additional services without any user intervention. However, if you are unable to find the service you may have to press ‘autotune’ on your digital radio. Not all receivers have the same functionality and the instructions below attempt to cover the different ways you can autotune your radio:

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Option 1:

• Press Auto Tune or Auto Scan button on your radio
• The display screen will show Autotune Quick scan / Fast Scanning
• As new stations are found the station counter on the right hand side of the display will increase and new stations will be added to this list
• It may take a couple of minutes for your radio to update the station list
• Scroll through the station list and you should find BBC Music Jazz after BBC Asian Network

Option 2:

• Press ‘menu’ button on your DAB radio
• Rotate the ‘Tune’ button until you see ‘Autotune’ in the display
• Select Autotune
• As new stations are found the station counter on the right hand side of the display will increase and new stations will be added to the list
• This should only take a couple of minutes
• BBC Music Jazz can be found in the display after BBC Asian Network.

If you have a digital radio in your car you will be able to access the station. Please note that it is not available via analogue.

• Switch on your radio
• Press and hold the ‘select’ or the ‘info’ button on your radio until the display shows ‘system reset’ or ‘factory reset’

OR

• Press and hold the ‘menu’ button for three seconds.
• Push the ‘tune’ button within 3 seconds to confirm the reset
• A full reset will be performed and your station list will be updated
• PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY PRESETS WILL BE ERASED

• BBC Music Jazz is available online at www.bbc.co.uk/musicjazz in the UK and internationally
• It is also available via the RadioPlayer
• It is also available as an ‘on demand’ service for up to 30 days after broadcast

Please visit bbc.co.uk/digitalradio and insert your postcode in the postcode checker to check coverage in your area. The BBC’s national digital radio coverage reaches 97% of the UK population.

The national DAB multiplex has been reconfigured to allow for BBC Music Jazz. The change to the bit rate is marginal – Radios 1, 2, 6 music and 1 Xtra will use 112kbps each instead of 128kbps – all the services remain in joint stereo.

There is only a fixed overall capacity available on the BBC national multiplex and this must be managed carefully to achieve good quality across the wide range of services that the BBC, as a public service broadcaster, aims to provide.

Achieving the right balance between the number of services offered and the bit rate allocated to each can at times be difficult. We have taken considerable care over the technical arrangements needed to allocate suitable capacity for each digital radio services.

This does mean the capacity individually allocated to some services has had to be reduced at certain times in order, for example, to bring part-time services to listeners. This will continue to be the case on occasions when we consider the balance across our digital radio services demands it. The bit rate on Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2 and 6 Music has been reduced from 128kbps joint stereo to 112 kbps joint stereo to allow for BBC Music Jazz.

The electronic programme guide on a DAB digital radio will not be available to update from Wednesday 9th November to Monday 14th November. However, as this is a 7-day guide, the majority of DAB EPG enabled receivers should retain the EPG (if they were updated before 9th November).

The service will be resumed at 12 noon on Monday 14th November. We apologise to any listeners who may not have been able to update their guide.

Yes, the pop up is available on internet receivers. Please note that not all internet radios are able to support HLS which is the audio format adopted by the BBC.

The schedule is available at bbc.co.uk/musicjazz.

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This is the second BBC Music Jazz pop up radio station which has launched in collaboration with Jazz FM bringing extra coverage of the London Jazz Festival, rare archive recordings from Jazz FM and bespoke content from across the BBC delivering greater value to audiences.

BBC Music Jazz makes on-air references to the collaboration between BBC and Jazz where editorially appropriate and in accordance with the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines.

There is no commitment to work with commercial radio services but should an opportunity arise and if it is in the best interest to the listener the BBC will be open to discussions.

The BBC is committed to driving digital radio. We believe that BBC Music Jazz will encourage many listeners to sample digital radio for the first time and brings together all of jazz in one place with some shared content from Jazz FM.