How many radios?

[iwastooearlytobeayummymummy]

I feel safe here, so want to share

One in the bathroom
two in the bedroom, each side of the bed
one in the dining room
one in the kitchen
one in tne car

usually tuned to radio 4, occasionally BBC London and if DDs around Radio 1 or (the shame) Capital

Am I normal?

Can't even have a pee without turning the radio on.

Is this odd?

be honest, I think I can take it.

Networkguy, I don't know about World Service on DAB. All I know is that after closedown, 198LW morphs seamlessly from Radio 4 to World Service which suits me fine when I have insomnia.
I'm not a great cricket fan either. Just a Jonathon Agnew fan.

Whst really annoys me about DAB, as I move from room to room, is that it has a delay. So I can be in the kitchen on the hour and hear Big Ben then walk into the sitting room and hear it all over again. It makes keeping up with documentaries v difficult as you hear things twice / miss them out altogether, depending on the direction of travel!

(Forgot to list one more radio: it's in the garage but doesn't count because DH has it tuned to Radio 5 )

R4 I agree about the sound delay thing, but it does make me feel like a time traveller

I also forgot the children's rooms,the laptop, my phone and the telly's radio, tho' to be honest i don't like listening through the telly as the screen being on annoys me.

radio is brilliant!

R4 FM morphs from 0100 to 0520 into World Service (though I know the DAB service has sometimes carried programmes for Schools a couple of hours later). Don't know if the FM service includes Schools, where I am BBC R Wales also has World Service (whereas the Welsh language station switches to Five Live from 0100 to 0500).

Some BBC Local stations switch to FiveLive, but it depends on the location - big cities have their own presenters all night I think.

Biggest problem with any of the digital platforms is that they are all out-of-sync (because it takes N seconds and N is different for different makes and models of Freeview box / DAB radio).

I heard someone today on a Which? podcast "pushing" DAB. I think it's a terrible waste of time to scrap these millions of perfectly good FM sets (and let's face it, if they are serious about DAB they should not go to the 20 year old version, but DAB+, and stop selling FM sets in shops, because people buying them will get even more angry having "just" bought something for it to be less useful).

FWIW, the FM band would still have stations, but they'd be independent and restricted licence ones (the ones running for local religious festivals, etc, or up to 4 weeks at a time)...

Eventually there would be nothing left on FM, and it's not as if there are any plans to sell off the band for something else...

iwastooearly... re Freeview and having TV on...

My Freeview box has left and right phono sockets on the back, so mine is plugged into the stereo and I don't use the TV sound at all - means films and so on have left and right (with better bass and treble controls) and then for radio, I just switch the TV off completely. It's off most of the time anyway...

Budget Freeview boxes are probably cheaper than new DAB sets and provide both radio and TV... certainly over the future should have reliable signals, but appreciate they're not like a portable radio you can move from room to room.

i have oodles of radios, some internet, some dab, one longwave and some fm. all r4 or r6. dh listens to bbc london unfortunately.

i cannot get decent r4 signal on at least 2 fm radios - there is hardly any bandwidth left what with pirates in london. so they'll have to move it. don't like digital, it keeps going off.

2 in the bedroom
1 in the kitchen
1 in sitting room plus the sky box
1 in bathroom
1 in the car

All FM, except skybox, all on R4. Listen to R7 on my PC or sky, it has some brilliant programs although not sure about running the News Quiz on it.

Tend to channel hop in the car LBC, Resonance, BBC London when Danny Baker is on, Xfm and Absolute.

I have noticed that nowadays the FM signal keeps dropping when I am driving around. It seems to be getting worse. I am wondering if there isn't a government department where a man sits with a big button, blocking the FM signal to encourage everybody to swich to digital

I find the rerun of R4 Friday comedy a couple of weeks later on BBC 7 very handy for anyone away for a couple of weeks, Friday to Friday/Saturday and wanting to catch-up as most radio items are only on iPlayer for 7 days.