Radio

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  29 June 2011     09:43112333
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  an interesting article from the telegraph
  
  Over 1,000 Britons were polled via their smartphones and asked to record what media they were consuming and to rate their mood and energy levels while doing so.
  Radio came out top, beating both TV and online, in the study called 'Media and the Mood of the Nation', with respondents recording a 100 per cent lift in happiness and 300 per cent boost to their energy levels when listening to a radio show versus not consuming any type of media at all.
  Watching TV and surfing the internet also significantly boosts people's happiness and energy levels, but failed to come close to the positive effect radio listening has on Britons' well-being.
  "People are the happiest and most energetic when listening to radio. It plays an important emotional role in people's lives," said Mark Barber, planning director at the Radio Advertising Bureau which commissioned the research.
  
  "People use radio as a lifestyle support system and to make themselves feel better about their lives... Our latest research highlights the immense potential of radio to influence emotions."
  
  The study found that listening to the radio increases people's happiness levels nearly twice as much as watching TV does, and gives them four times the amount of perceived energy. Similarly radio trumped people's feelings when online, especially in the energy stakes. Those listening to radio said that they felt three times more energetic than they did when browsing the web.
  A separate part of the study also used EEG brain scans to further monitor people's reactions to radio. Having monitored the wave activity in six people's brains (three men and three women), the results showed that radio stimulates positive brain engagement levels and that people are more responsive to audio adverts when preceded by editorial content.
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  29 June 2011     09:50112335
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  Radio is fab - always my choice. DAB radio has been a lovely boost, too, with access to so many more things. Lovely. And I don't know what I would do without it in my car! An iPod has only so much to give!!
• Guest 645

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  29 June 2011     10:04112340
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  On the local radio this morning
  
  DJ to Newscaster: Where do you like to visit in Italy?
  Newscaster : Oo-er (hesitates) Leonardo De Caprio
  DJ (laughing) : What (in disbelief)
  Newscaster : You know him that built the coliseum
  
  You can't write stuff like that
  
  Radio a fave of mine is the new Radio4 Extra and classicfm,local radio on school runs for traffic news
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
• howard mcsweeney1

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  29 June 2011     11:50112357
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  i must admit to preferring radio to television, it always seems more personal.
  
  the today programe of radio 4 each morning is a very good wy to start the day, informative and well presented.
  
  cricket fans watch test matches on t.v. with the sound off and listen to test match special on the radio.
• Guest 715

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  29 June 2011     15:29112403
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  The only trouble with watching the Cricket on Sky with the much better radio commentary is the time delay in the picture, so the bowler is running up on TV and the radio is saying "smashed to the boundary" or similar
  Audere est facere.
• Guest 651

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  29 June 2011     15:33112404
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  I have given up on daytime TV in the background when I work from home - stick to 6Music these days..
  Been nice knowing you :)
• howard mcsweeney1

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  29 June 2011     15:52112409
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  gave up on that years ago paul, the level is apallingly low.
  
  haven't done that since sky got the cricket martin, when it was on channel 4 richie benaud was one of the commentators so didn't need the radio.
• Guest 651

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  29 June 2011     16:23112413
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  I could cope with it until I realised how often the same programmes came around !!
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Terry Cleaver

  • Location: Dover
  30 June 2011     21:36112688
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  Don't forget about Dover Community Radio offering podcasts via our website and podcasts, music and test programmes on our internet stream. We are aiming to launch live programmes at the end of July. Any ideas will be welcome.
  
  Our website: http://www.dovercommunityradio.co.uk