Not that much. I see still some sets use rechargeable and this has to be for
this reason.
Besides, from one manufacturer, recently I heard that usage of digital has
to be over 75 percent before fm will be turned off. Many of the commercial
stations cannot afford the current rates to broadcast on dab in stereo, and
test are still under way with dab plus and many radios cannot get that at
all, including most of the older Pure range and some of the german fitted
car radios.
Also nobody has come up yet with a version of the s tuning knob so blind
and elderly folk can use the current radios without help as there is no
actual knob just buttons.
I think though that when they do switch of, if ever they do it will be a
pirates bonanza. Here in London its already chock full of pirate fm
stations with islamic spoutings, bible bashers, drug funded rave stations
etc, all concreted into the tops of tower blocks fed from band 1 low power t
transmitters beamed to them from other parts of the city.

Brian

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Listening to Radio 4 this morning they did an item on (I think) Norway and
their switch to Digital radio - it appears that by the end of 2017 FM
radio switch off in that country will be complete.

Anyway the bloke said that approximately 48% of UK radio listening was now
digital and when this reaches 50% a date will be set for UK FM switch off.

When DAB first came out it was reported that all sets consumed batteries
like it was going out of fashion and as they all used basically the same
chip they were all as bad as one another.

I have an FM radio that sits in the bathroom and gets used for about 30
mins a day. 4 rechargeable C cells last about 3 months or thereabouts.
Direct connection to the mains is not an option.

Has the design of DAB radios moved on such that it is now possible to get
acceptable performance from disposable or rechargeable C/D batteries. I'm
not keen on bespoke rechargeable as the replacement cost (even if
available in 5/10/15 years time) will doubtless be astronomic.

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