Do you use the radio in you car? I do.

I'd use the FM radio only on weekends really. Weekdays I listen to music, online radio etc. via Bluetooth.

I'd probably listen to the radio 25% of the time and either stream music or play from USB the rest of the time. I wouldn't buy a car that didn't have an inbuilt radio.

I listen to the radio 95% of the time. Very occasionally I use Android Auto and/or a usb stick for playing music.

I can't imagine owning a car without an FM radio.

Its not really a demand, rather its lack of demand. The direction of travel is that more and more people are using streaming services to keep themselves entertained in-car and if people are not using FM then its a cost ripe to be cut. Almost all FM radio services can be listened to through streaming like audials.

The bit in the media today is the Radio industry preempting the shift to new consumption methods and defending their patch. If FM radio goes the way of AM in cars, then the medium is finished.

My radio still has an extended AM tuner that tunes LW so I still listen to BBC Radio 4 Longwave in the car.

Use it every day, and wouldn’t buy a car without a radio. It’s the same as not buying a car where all functions are controlled via a touch screen. Deal breakers.

I think Irish radio will slowly be fading away. Outside of Dublin there is not much choice on FM, and AM from the UK is getting turned off and shut down more and more. There is a good amount of high quality news on BBC Radio 4 on LW but that's to be turned off as well. Also they denied the DAB choice other countries have Ireland, with some lame answers like "we didn't need that technology" or "this ship has saild".

Thus more and more people will be streaming via bluetooth.

Are you on an ancient phone plan? I haven't worried about pay as you go data with my phone in what feels like a decade or longer now.

Currently on Three's 20 euro a month plan and it's all you can eat data, there's no limit.

I only listen to fm radio in the car, no CD player (it's broken) and no bluetooth/aux/whatever

Even if I did have those tho, I wouldn't always have mobile signal when driving around, so I'd hate not having a fm radio as a standard

I listen to CDs most of the time because of the superior sound quality, but other than that it's radio FM, so yeah I use it most of the time

I use the radio in the car all the time.

Lyric is a particular favourite, very calming.

I would avoid purchasing a car with no radio.

In my 18 years of driving, I've never listened to the radio. I've always used aux/fm transmitters/bluetooth connected to my phone/iPod.

Why would I listen to Irish radio when I can listen to an infinite amount of audio?

traffic reports - Google Maps/waze has better info (as it uses accelerometer data of people using maps/android phones even if not using maps).

special interest shows - podcasts are there for super niche interests, even if there's something I want to hear from traditional radio, it's often put up in podcast form

music - Spotify / Apple Music has all I need

weather - I look out the window / use an app.

There's nothing else traditional fm radio gives.

Do think cars should have the ability to receive FM but can't deny it's days are numbered.

I wouldn't buy a car without a built in radio. In fact if I had any say in regulations, I'd insist that cars should only have simple devices like radios with on/off switch and decent sized push buttons to change preset stations.

Far, far too much tippy, tappy technology in modern cars - leading to driver distraction.

My C30 and C45s cassettes still function, I upgraded from the 8 track😎

I can't stand daytime radio. Between the ads the sh1te music and the haha hoho yayyay presenters and the inane crap they're talking about it's simply unbearable. Lyric FM is ok but not always in the mood for that either. BBC Sounds it is.

Internet - 4G - Spotify App on Phone - Bluetooth - FM transmitter - FM Radio - Speakers

I use all the networks to get Spotify to my car speakers 😁

Thing about FM/AM/Radio though is that it's "free", can broadcast 1 way to everybody in the country and uses very little power. The amount of power and bandwidth required to deliver the broadcast is the same for 1 user or a million users. Also the receivers require very little power.

I would imagine some form of communication like this would always be necessary, especially in disaster situations.

4/5G has black spots, uses a lot more power and bandwidth, and this goes up as the number of users go up.

Yeah I do that cause we've 1 account we share here and I have download rights 😁

But, I guess my point was, that won't work for live digital radio over 4/5G for example.

Definitely think a FM/am radio is always useful to have. Maybe it'll go this way. People will have to buy cheap FM/am radios that Bluetooth to the car audio system if they want radio broadcasts.

I signed up with gomo in 2019 and I'm on unlimited calls texts and data for 9.99 since. It even includes roaming, not quite unlimited but more than enough. I've completely forgotten about having a mobile contract by now. My phone is my car radio. If they have a fair usage policy I havent found the limit yet.

Unless you're like - I dont know what teenagers do these days on their phones, high res video edits in the cloud or gaming or something…? I lost my trail but my point was going to be its hard to need a big contract these days IMO. Only reason I can think of is getting that expensive phone you havent the cash for.

I imagine it's way more these days w home broadband. Family w teenagers wfh then 4k streaming and social media all day will go through a 100 gig in no time at all.

What the radio industry lobby group is actually asking is to ensure that Irish radio stations are "easy to find" on modern car radios regardless if it's FM or Streaming

I bought myself a lovely Sony Digital Audio Player, filled it with 300Gb of FLAC music and just use that over Bluetooth. Tend to just listen to albums through without ever looking at a screen, it's great.

The only time I listen to the radio is in the car, Pat Kenny in the morning, or Sean Moncrieff in the afternoon. Unfortunately I rarely get to hear the whole programme but if there is something I want to share with those at home I'll probably pull it up online for them as well. If they get rid of radios in cars I'm bringing me tranny!!! (showing my age there!)