PTY is a technology used by some in car radios that tells the radio what type of broadcast the radio station is transmitting, it stands for Programme Type and is very useful for finding new radio stations that you may like or finding what any particular radio station is broadcasting.

PTY uses a series of categories which the radio stations assign to their output, some radio stations keep the same category all of the time whereas other radio stations change their category as their radio programmes or music styles change throughout the day. The categories that PTY radio stations can choose include news, current affairs, sports, education, drama, pop music, rock music, classical music and many others.

The great thing about PTY is that you can tell your in car radio to find radio stations broadcasting a particular category, for instance if you want to listen to rock music then you can select rock music using the PTY feature and the in car radio will search for radio stations broadcasting in the rock music category.

If you would like to buy an in car radio with the PTY feature then have a look at the in car radios listed below, they all have the PTY feature and are listed with the cheapest first so finding a cheap in car radio with PTY is easy here: