Be prepared - your FM radio is going to go

DAB radio is planned to replace FM radio - you may have noticed that most new cars have DAB radio ready for the change.

Norway was the first european county to discontinue FM broadcasting and others are to follow.    Here in the UK it is just a question of time allowing people to get a DAB radio.    Battery/mains operated sets are available from £17.95.

A DAB radio would be invaluable in the event of a power cut or national emergency. 

Here's more information on DAB radio:

Digital audio broadcasting (DAB) is a digital radio standard for broadcasting digital audio radio services, used in countries across Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

The DAB standard was initiated as a European research project in the 1980s.  The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) launched the first DAB channel in the world on 1 June 1995 (NRK Klassisk), and the BBC and Swedish Radio (SR) launched their first DAB digital radio broadcasts in September 1995. DAB receivers have been available in many countries since the end of the 1990s.

DAB is more efficient in its use of spectrum than analogue FM radio, and thus may offer more radio services for the same given bandwidth. DAB is more robust with regard to noise and multipath fading for mobile listening, since DAB reception quality first degrades rapidly when the signal strength falls below a critical threshold, whereas FM reception quality degrades slowly with the decreasing signal.

Television broadcasting is now digital and has resulted in the avaiiability of more stations.

.....Wikipedia