Do people stlll have radios In the house ?

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.

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:

I'm like that, but with radio.

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.

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.

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

I haven't been directly involved radio for a while, so am not sure what specific questions are now being asked on the survey about listening on new devices. However, my direct experience on working with a considerable range of young people is that they are certainly listening to other 'new' devices, but they are not using them to listen to radio stations. They are using them to listen to streaming music playlist services or viewing music video on youtube.

That is only my opinion based on my most recent and current experience. Those who manage the survey can explain their findings and those that pay for it can ensure that they are happy with the approach it takes. The only people the JNLR has to satisfy are those who pay for it to be undertaken.

Yes,

Without the radio on during breakfast in the mornings my kids wouldn't have a clue what was happeing in Irish news. What they listen to the rest of the time is controled by algorithms.

I thought Creative pulled out of ireland but they still have a presence here apparently..they ‘should’ be able to advise.

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I had a fairly basic Roberts yoke in the old house but it didn't survive the move 5 years ago. When looking to replace it, I was dead set on getting a WiFi connected version so I could pick up radio stations from all over (for my sins I wanted some Irish radio here in the UK). Then I saw the price of them, £60-70 for starters iirc. The Echo Dot yokes were around £20 at the time so that was an easy decision. It's still working a treat and when refurbing the kitchen last year we put some Bluetooth speakers in the ceiling which work great for upping the volume when needed.

Roberts radios have the By Appointment logos, or at least they used to. The R900 which I have is probably the last "proper" Roberts, before they went Chinese. It is from the time in between where the names of stations e.g. Athlone were marked on the dial, and the modern time when there are memory presets. There are always a few R900's on eBay, with lots of other vintage radios. If buying an old one, watch out for ones which only have Long and Medium wave, or where FM coverage does not go up to 108 MHz.

I much rather a traditional radio than a radio on a phone. My phone is so heavy with apps which are run a lot that a conventional radio makes more sense more sense for me. I am convinced it is more cost effective to as my phones seem to wear out fast as it is. I enjoy using the radio on the TV as well. Radio on a laptop/desktop is ok too.

I have had an Amstrad CD/radio for years but recently dropped the power adaptor and it stopped working. Was dismayed to see it listed as 'Vintage' when I went to try get a new one.

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Radios are great and very handy I find. You can just have it playing in the background while you're working in the house or outside in the garden. In summer times when it gets hot and sunny, I usually sit outside in the back garden with a few cans and the radio turned on. So yeah, my family absolutely swears by having a radio.

Many of those tuners had atrocious quality, especially the alarm-clock radios with a thin wire hanging out the back for an aerial.

Modern chinese-made tuners with digital processing blow anything from that era out of the water.

Ironically you still have basic old school analogue tuners on sale at the same prices range as latest radios designed with 21st century digital technology. Similar to how mp3 players ended up cheaper than cassette Walkmen.

We've a basic LED clock radio in the bedroom. Handy to glance at the time without having to click a phone etc.

We also have a radio speaker on the window above the sink. We listen to the radio every morning. Fine background noise.

Yeah a few of them. A bedside digital alarm clock/radio, a mini HiFi for casettes or CD's should anyone need to play them (they don't) and a while back I invested in a cool little boxy 80's style ghetto blaster expressly for the bluetooth speaker in it. I listen to tonnes of radio, but the incessant repetitive ads do my head in, so I mainly listen to the show highlights in my own time on this speaker.

In order for there to be a Wireless, there had to be a Wire before that. Which was wired or cabled telegraphy, sending messages by Morse Code, originally overland, then undersea as well. That is reflected in the company name Cable and Wireless. Wireless (Telegraphy) only came into the language near the end of the 19th century. What you have warming your feet is a Wireless Set, later on people dropped the Set bit. TV's were also called Television Sets early on. Wireless has made a comeback for describing mobile phone communications.

Radio is derived from Latin, so no need to fret about it being too modern.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=wireless%2C+radio&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3

I (50) have a clock radio for the bedroom. More because of the ruggedness of the clock radio (Easy to hit a button to snooze). But other than that, smart speakers around the house (Apart from office)

That's exactly what I have - and for a similar reason. It sometimes feels like a bit of overkill now that I'm back in Ireland - but two long-ish stints in earthquake/tsunami zones over the years means certain habits are still ingrained.

I have an alarm radio I still use about 20 years old I use as my alarm. I have a normal radio with a cd player and ipod Dock. I have an Internet radio, looks like a normal radio but has WiFi so can get stations around the world

Yes but it's in the back of a cupboard. Daytime FM radio in Ireland is seldom worth listening to where I live. The radio has been usurped by a good quality smart speaker, Tune-In and Spotify.

Yep +1 to that - it’s great how some of these brands have kept up with the times and added such features- love my kitchen radio would never be without it and I have a fairly high end portable speaker - I just like a radio

Absolutely.

My nerd hobby is radio. I collect radios and radio memorabilia.