Do people stlll have radios In the house ?

brokenbad

Bluetooth speaker in the kitchen - can stream radio through that.

Have an old stereo in the shed just have the radio on in the background when doing a job .

Grayson

I have google devices scattered around the apartment. So I just ask it to play the radio. Or for some stations I just stream it from my phone to the speaker.

I do think I should get some kind of AM/FM/LW radio just to have knocking around in case of power/internet outages.

Day Lewin

I have 3 of the 4 types too.

Very handy for just blearily turning on for the News in the morning.

and they don't need to be charged, extra bonus.

Mal-Adjusted

I have a cassette player that's also a radio and a cd player that's also a radio. I mostly pay radio off Alexa with the echo dot in the kitchen and the eco show in the bedroom though.

Glaceon

I have one in the kitchen and two upstairs. The one in the kitchen still gets daily use.

Furze99

Half a dozen at least radios around the house, of which three in daily use.

bmc58

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058289205/do-people-stlll-have-radios-in-the-house

I have one in my bedroom and listen to RTE Radio 1 and Newstalk every night and some mornings when I'm in bed. I won it about 20 years as a prize in a golf competition and it does me fine.still working perfect.I wouldn't be without it.

I have a Roberts Stream 93i which has FM, DAB , Spotify and Internet Radio. I mostly listen to Boom Radio and Classic FM through the Internet radio bit of it!

Citroen2cv

Furniture that talks?

Nah, don't trust it.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120390814#Comment_120390814

Have you always hated radio or did your hate for it only develop in recent years?

CalamariFritti

Yes 4 in total but the main ones do streaming and internet radio too. And that what's mostly on. A lot of BBC internet radio. No ads, hard to beat.

There is an alarm-radio beside the bed. It's been demoted to a clock for years now. I listen to FM the odd time in the car. Lyric FM is nice for that.

Annascaul

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DAB is only dead and buried in Ireland, because a couple of decision makers are adversely against it.

DAB and DAB+ is alive and well in a good number of other countries. The UK has a massive choice on DAB as well as DAB+, so does Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Germany. There is also a massive roll out for DAB+ in France ( whilst at the same time in Ireland the position is "now it's too late"). Even Northern Ireland has DAB and DAB+.

In the Republic of Ireland there is fierce opposition towards DAB+ and the downward compatible older DAB technology due to stubborn thinking and fears of more competition on the radio market.

elperello

I checked and I have six radios in different rooms in regular use.

Also two old valve radios, a Sierra and a Mallard. Working but not picking up much these days.

Then there's two telly's with Saorview and one with Satellite which get radio.

Fathom

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058289205/do-people-stlll-have-radios-in-the-house

In closet with extra water, food, battery base, etc. Only for emergency purposes. Has own batteries. Suggested for us living in California earthquake and Pacific coast tsunami zones. Gift from family after 6.4 earthquake.

Neames

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We used to listen to Harbour Hotel on the wireless, a different era.

L1011

I've a Pioneer tuner in my stack; but that's it. Listen to radio on smart speakers or the TVs primarily.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120393839#Comment_120393839

And from an older era, The Kennedys of Castleross.

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-0ygW-B_gI

I'd sit alone and watch your light

My only friend through teenage nights

And everything I had to know

I heard it on my radio

You gave them all those old time stars

Through wars of worlds invaded by Mars

You made 'em laugh, you made 'em cry

You made us feel like we could fly

So don't become some background noise

A backdrop for the girls and boys

Who just don't know, or just don't care

And just complain when you're not there

You had your time, you had the power

You've yet to have your finest hour

Radio

Montage of Feck

How will ye hear the emergency public broadcasts in an apocalyptic event without a proper radio?

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058289205/do-people-stlll-have-radios-in-the-house

Yes I do as does every household in Switzerland, where I live. It is part of the civil defense survival kit - a transistor radio and an adequate supply of batteries and regularly tested.

Butson

Had a Google Home but recently went back to the FM radio in the kitchen.

Actually nice not having yet another connected device.

L1011

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There is no functional emergency broadcast system in this country; the 'test' of one many years ago was 100% manual intervention and relied on a satellite service that ceased many, many years ago.

anewme

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I have that but it’s not bringing in any radio stations?

Would love to take it out from storage as you said, the sound is brilliant.

I have the kitchen radio on all day, morning to evening and also leave it ion for the dog when I’m out

Gregor Samsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120393296#Comment_120393296

I used to listen to it a lot in my teens. I had a Sharp clock radio in my room, and I'd listen to Radio 2/2 FM at night doing my homework. One of my abiding memories of studying for my Inter cert was hearing "Oh Mary" by The 4 Of Us over and over and over and over. My mother used to have the radio on in the kitchen all the time when I was growing up, mainly Radio 1, and my dad would listen to Radio Nova and Atlantic 252 in the car all though our childhood.

In my later teens I started getting into music that just wasn't played on the radio - metal, punk, hardcore, rap, industrial, experimental. There was a pirate station in Dublin called Alice's Restaurant that used to play a lot of alternative stuff, so we'd listen to that a bit, but even then my musical tastes weren't really being catered for. So I just spent all my money on records and CDs and blank tapes to copy other people's records and CDs, and just got our of the habit of turning on the radio. For years, all though my 20s when I was living with friends, I just never encountered a radio being on, except in a shop. We'd have our own music playing constantly.

About 20 years ago (when I was 30), I got a job in a very small company. It was just me and a husband and wife, who were older than me, in a small singled room office. They had the radio on all day. Between the inane chatter, the jingles, the same bland songs being played on every show, the "hilarious banter", the angry callers - it just absolutely melted my head. I couldn't wear headphones because it would be anti-social when you're in a room with just your bosses, and anyway it wouldn't have blocked out the radio. So I had to endure it. After 3 months I left that job for a better one in a bigger company, and there was no radio.

And to this day, I just can't stand the radio. I can't stand the music they play, I can't stand the ridiculous, cringy ads. I can't stand how they talk over the music I can't stand. I detest the fake cheery banter of breakfast shows. I absolutely cannot abide call-in shows. I even can't stand the bassy, warm, close tone of the news readers. I just can't deal with it. When I hear a radio on, all I can think of is all the other things I could be listening to, including silence.

You know that Larry David quote:

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

I'm like that, but with radio.

tinytobe

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120394073#Comment_120394073

I am aware that the Germans do have an emergency broadcast system on DAB+. The radio comes on automatically as long as it has batteries or is plugged in. Most likely Switzerland has a similar system. I am not aware if the UK even has one?

https://www.worlddab.org/public_document/file/1451/DAB__Emergency_warning_factsheet.pdf?1635785305

In Switzerland and Germany they also send automatic text messages to cell phones which are in a certain area with emergency messages. It's called KATWARN and NINA.

https://www.katwarn.de/en/

https://www.bbk.bund.de/EN/Home/home_node.html

https://www.bbk.bund.de/DE/Warnung-Vorsorge/Warn-App-NINA/warn-app-nina_node.html

Thargor

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Oooo that's nice, going to try track one down for my new houses kitchen.

Although maybe it is nicer these days just asking Alexa to play Classic Hits or Radio Nova aswell though.

I have a vast mp3 and FLAC music collection and I do listen to 90% of my music that way on my various mp3 players and DAPs but I still think there's something way more satisfying about catching a random good tune on the radio than calling it up from a menu.

Ger Roe

I am a bit older than the specified age range and I am a longtime radio anorak (and ex pirate broadcaster).

Not surprising so, that I have a large collection of radio receivers, dating from a 1927 crystal set, to a modern DAB and samples of each technical development in between (valves, transistors, internet, scanners, communication receivers). These days I use them occasionally to demonstrate their operation to young people, but in recent years, I have noticed that they are less and less familiar with the concept of listening to any form of radio. Their minds are blown when they hear of radio stations on ships, or when every village in Ireland had it's own local illegal radio station.

Even when I was involved with Dublin commercial radio in the early 2000's, I didn't believe the high listenership figures reported for radio in general that the JNLR survey produced, in the past decade in particular and working with young people, I am even more convinced that, unfortunately, traditional broadcast radio, has seen it's best days. The general responses to this thread would back up my assumption... even more so for the younger population, the people who used to be the potential future audience for radio.

I live in a radio shadow spot in Wicklow, so active listening these days is mainly online - sometimes to internet only stations but often to local/national broadcast stations that can not be received directly off air in my location. In the olden days, some specialised equipment and a degree of technical knowledge was needed to listen to radio from foreign lands, on short wave - these days it has never been easier through internet and phone app devices, but despite that being the case, the interest in doing so has faded, like the signals used to.

I still use a portable medium wave radio to tune into the once monthly Radio Caroline broadcasts from the last remaining pirate radio ship, Ross Revenge, on 1368 Khz (219 meters in old money), from the 20 Kw transmitter at Manx Radio on the Isle of Man.

https://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#manx_info.html

In winter (when the signal carries further) I will also check out Radio Caroline's own 4Kw AM service on 648Khz, originating at the once secret UK military research site at Orfordness.

https://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/threads/orford-ness-military-base-awre-and-orfordness-transmitting-station-may-2020.38084/

I also have a 'Summit Freeplay' wind up (and solar) radio, in case of the alien invasion or zombie apocalypse and I have a radio transmitter and antenna on standby (old habits die hard) - when the aliens or zombies attack, someone still has to be able to call up the Americans for a bit of firepower, like they always do in the movies :)

It is inevitable that times change and technology and attitudes move on, but I do think it is a pity that young people will not experience the thrill of manually tuning across the radio spectrum to see what might be picked up. In my time, it could have been anything from a pop pirate ship, to a foreign nation propaganda station, or a shortwave numbers station, or wideband interference from the Russian Woodpecker (over the horizon radar experimentation), or amatuer radio conversations, or ship to shore communications, or the early Irish AM pirates of the 60's and 70's and then the FM Super Pirates of the 80's ....... the fascination was endless

Thargor

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Yeah I would say a graph of usage would be a sheer cliff face drop off the same as a graph of print newspaper readership, maybe car radios will keep it going a bit longer but it has to be doomed. We listen to music at work on laptops but anyone under 30 wouldn't even know the names of the stations now, they just go straight to Spotify or a YouTube playlist.

Flinty997

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We have two of them. The screens have faded now. I wonder does anywhere repair them. Hard to find a equivalent replacement.

Flinty997

I only listen to the radio in the car. The other half likes to have the radio on at home, morning etc.