A couple of weeks ago my wife visited a friend living on the Northern coast of Zealand.

On that trip she heard some traffic announcements from the Swedish broadcaster.

Ever since then we hear Swedish traffic announcements rather than the Danish announcement we need to be able to hear.

Yesterday, I drove 30 miles in very slow traffic because I couldn't hear the Danish traffic warnings.

How can I get the Traffic program back to the Danish broadcasts?

Best regards from Denmark,

Eric

That's an interesting question, you will need to have a look the Instructions for the Bolero but my guess would be that you might but set to say what I call national rather than what I call local for station search/tuning but I have no idea of radio coverage in your country. Here you can have the same radio station broadcasted on national or local and the same broadcasts can be shared by different station names and switching at different times of day.

As you can see I am only guessing and could be wrong, I would start with resetting the radio to search out your local stations and hopefully traffic announcements.

As far as I know we have/had DAB on a 2016 , I forget what differences there might be with DAB+ but the Instruction booklet should cover your system, if you don't have the paper printed copy of the instructions you can get a free VWŠkoda pdf download off the VWŠkoda manuals website. - https://www.skoda-auto.com/apps/manuals/Models

Or if you don't get better replies than mine here and retuning your radio for local stations doesn't work then you could look at and/or ask in the 'Audio, Electronics and Security' forum of this site. - https://www.briskoda.net/forums/forum/7-audio-electronics-and-security/

HTH.

Hello again Nigel,

Thank you for your educated guesses.

Your thoughts helped me. By getting the radio to scan the FM band for available stations, the Danish traffic announcements came back.

Here in Denmark our Bolero can be switched between FM and DAB+.

Usually, I listen to BBC World Service via DAB+ while driving. Traffic announcements are broadcast via the regional FM stations, so they interrupt whatever is playing from DAB+ or FM.

For some reason the BBC World Service signal is not as stable as the other DAB+ stations, so I regularly experience "blackouts" even in flat, open country.

Best regards from Denmark,

Eric

Eric, guesses yes, educated not so much. I can assure you it is very rare I get something right but as we say here if you throw enough mud at the wall some of it might stick, a stopped clock is right twice (or once) a day, and I don't think I have ever started.

I too sometimes listen to BBC World Service on the few very occasions I'm in my wife's 2015 Fabia by myself (and often when at home) this is on DAB radios with I think DAB Traffic announcements as all are local UK so (UK) English.

Lots is going on with the BBC, most in the UK have very little understanding or care about the uniqueness of the BBC and younger ones no history of its possible relevance to the UK and rest of the world so funding is always an issuer here. As such cut backs have been made including the World Service, how this affects supply out your way I have no idea.

Don't get me wrong, the BBC isn't perfect, and it has been putting itself in trouble again, only today national reporting of running errors, some of the commercial competitors see this as their gain.

I'm glad you have got it sorted, with cars I particularly like quick, simple, no-cost, clean-hands "repairs", always my first go to with any car issue after decades of getting dirty on even the simplest of jobs on cars with their generally ancient technologies (including much of their computer stuff).

Lots of the World Service programs are from Radio 4 so if you don't already you might enjoy that if it is still available on the internet somehow or the programs (and/or podcasts)from Radio 4.

Cheers.

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