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Turks and Caicos broadcast guide: RTC frequency changes and app functions

RTC identifies 89.1 FM as its current broadcast frequency. Its app separates the live station from four music choices, on-demand programmes, news audio and RTC TV.

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89.1 FM is the station’s current published frequency

Radio Turks and Caicos’ own about page describes 89.1 FM as its island-wide frequency and explicitly labels the earlier 107.7, 103.9 and 101.9 FM arrangements as former frequencies. It also traces the station’s earlier Grand Turk AM identity and its role in carrying messages between families in the islands and the Bahamas. This history explains legacy station labels without turning an older frequency or domain name into a present tuning instruction.

The app contains five different listening choices

The publisher’s Apple listing identifies Radio 1 as the live 89.1 FM broadcast, Radio 2 for current pop, Radio 3 for TCI artists, RTC Rewind for older music and RTC Gospel. A listener wanting a news bulletin should therefore use the live-station function rather than expect every music choice to reproduce it. These are defined app selections, not five different FM frequencies or a claim that every item has a television picture.

Podcasts, news audio and RTC TV are separate functions

The same app description names House of Assembly, Nation’s Report, Expressions and Financially Speaking among regular on-demand uploads. Its version history separately records adding RTC TV streaming and later audio inserts to news posts. These functions answer different needs: a programme podcast, a spoken news item and television video are not interchangeable. The listing identifies iPhone/iPad use and gives current software requirements; its existence alone should not be expanded into a native application for every smart television platform.

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