HDTV/3D TV News
RAJAR (Radio Joint Audience Research) has published its latest round of radio related statistics.
And as far as digital radio is concerned, although listening figures are up year-on-year, that’s not the case in comparison to the previous quarter.
Year-on-year, the amount of digital radio listeners increased by 14%, to a total share of 20.9% of all radio listeners.
However, in the previous quarter that figure had been 21.1%, so has slipped down very slightly.
Listening to the radio via a mobile phone has also increased year-on-year, and is up 7.1%
Why does everything have to be digital. It isn’t the best way to do everything. I listen to Radio 4 FM most days. To change to a DAB radio would add a lot of advertising music stations I would never listen to, and massively increase power consumption. A set of batteries in an FM radio last for months. On a DAB set I would be lucky if they lasted one month.
So if they do succeed in getting the majority to switch to DAB, and close the FM transmissions I will just stop listening to radio 4 or get the computer to stream the odd programme.