I've got a 2004 Cooper with the base Boost radio. Recently, I noticed that any station owned by Clearchannel no longer displays RDS info.

I know it's still being broadcast because my wife's BMW X3 (which appears to have a similar though not identical radio as the Boost) shows RDS info for those same stations.

It's weird because it's ONLY Clearchannel stations that this is happening with. For those of you in LA, that would be:

KIIS-FM 102.7
MY-FM 104.3
KOST 103.5
STAR 98.7

Any ideas on why this might be happening?

 

WEIRD...I just went outside and went into that diagnostic mode that has been described in this forum (pressing the M button). I didn't change any settings but when I exited from that mode, the Clearchannel RDS info magically came back!

I have no idea why merely entering the diagnostic mode would have changed anything, or why specifically Clearchannel stations were impacted, but I guess my problem is now solved.

 

Even if you do not change anything the setting are resaved. So as with all computer based equipment these things happen.