2005 Saturn Ion Owner's Manual - Page 164
2005 Saturn Ion Manual
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RDS Messages ALERT!: Alert warns of local or national emergencies. When an alert announcement comes on the current radio station, ALERT! will appear on the display. You will hear the announcement, even if the volume is low or a CD is playing. If a CD is playing, play will stop during the announcement. Alert announcements cannot be turned off. ALERT! will not be affected by tests of the emergency broadcast system. This feature is not currently supported by RDS stations in the United States. It is up to the individual stations to decide to support this feature. TRAF (Traffic): If TA appears on the display, the tuned station has the ability to broadcast traffic announcements and if a traffic announcement comes on the tuned radio station you will hear it. If the station does not broadcast traffic announcements, press the TRAF button and the radio will seek to a station that does. When a station that broadcasts traffic announcements is found, the radio will stop seeking and TA will appear on the display. If no station is found that broadcasts traffic announcements, NO TRAFFIC will appear on the display. If TA is on the display, press the TRAF button to turn off the traffic announcements. The radio will play the traffic announcement with the volume at a moderate level. The radio will interrupt the play of a CD or XM™ Satellite Radio Station if the last tuned station broadcasts traffic announcements. Very few radio stations in the United States currently use the traffic announcement feature. Pressing the RDS button will change the display mode from radio to CD or from CD to radio. 4 (Information): If the current station has a message, the information symbol will appear on the display. Press this button to see the message. The message may display the artist, song title, call in phone numbers, etc. If the entire message is not displayed, parts of the message will appear every three seconds. To scroll through the message, press and release this button. A new group of words will appear on the display after every press of this button. Once the complete message has been displayed, the information symbol will disappear from the display until another new message is received. The last message can be displayed by pressing this button until a new message is received or a different station is tuned to. 3-56