Analogue radio being switched off?

I only knew this a couple of weeks ago ...I am right royally pissed off cos my Grandad collected radios and I have a couple that I still use occasionally.

The are massively important to me ~ and now they will be defunct.

I have a DAB radio and tbh ..they are crap. I am endlessly re tuning or the programmes just disappear. I am on my THIRD DAB radio because the other ones broke.

I listen to the radio much more than I watch the telly so, as you can tell, I have steam coming out of my ears about this.

This will only happen "provided certain tests are met" - and the consensus outside the government is that they are unlikely to be met by 2015.

This paragraph says it all:

"the final decision to switch off FM and AM won't get the go-ahead until 50% of all radio listening is via digital - the current level is just 20%."

DAB digital radio has been available in the UK since 1995 - nearly 15 years - and still only 20% of listening is done on digital. It's typical New Labour fantasy to think that can be more than doubled in just 5 years.

I know! The lying Bs were swearing blind for years that radio would NEVER go fully digital, but I knew they'd do it, I knew it, and I was right! It's disgusting, but nothing will be done, no-one will fight it or oppose it, we'll all just accept it like we did with goddamn digital TV. It's all from the EU and their directives. You just wait until we're 100% digital and a terrorist uses an EM bomb that knocks out all our comms. Or when there's a huge mass ejection from the sun like they had in Canada a while back - it'll destroy all the digital comms. We have no contingencies in place in the UK for the loss of digital comms, and one day it WILL happen, and we'll have no TV radio or phones! Nowhere in the world is any country going 100% digital except the UK, it's not even happening to every EU state, just us, we're a Grand experiment, and it stinks! Think of the landfill and personal expense, not just from all the TVs and associated gizmos, but ALL those radios. This is so very very wrong.

Consider it like the car scrappage scheme, but for radios. The far east industrialists must be rubbing their hands together.

We are all digital telly here now. I will be annoyed when they ditch FM, as it will mean having to fit a radio into the car, no doubt expensive for us. I only listen to the radio on-line or via satellite at home now.

I've been waiting on a dab radio appearing in Poundland. I bet I have a long wait.

Ive got a DAB radio for work and they are crap, out of the 40 odd stations out there, it picks up about 15 to 20 of them, the signal gets disrupted by outside interference - which is not what we were told by the manufactures. So just like Freeview and Sky which are both effected by outside interference, they going to leave us with no alternative, which is a shame as I've gone back to terrestrial radio for work as i get less problems.

Oh and one more thing they use 4 times as much power as a traditional radio does, not really Green are they, but that's our Hypocritical Government for you

You need to be aware of the New World Order. It is happening now. Analogue frequencies does not transmit enough information of the user and the government can not stand that.

It is Big brother for sure. Pretty soon our government will install digitize micro chips (RIFD) in your brain, and make you digital. This is when you really need to worry about your freedom and privacy.

Its a stupid idea Brian....And taking into account the number of pensioners who use radio rather than Tv, it could well mean a lifeline is lost to them..Same with the housebound..

Hiya Brian long time no see, glad to see you dropping by..

they might make some sort of attachments we could continue using the radios we already have..

I never knew that, I just thought it was the TV's. They never even mentioned the radios being switched over in all the bumf and advertising.

Hello Brian- the Digital stations get more licences and therefore the Govn. will make more money! Simple as that!