In article , Keith G
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I believe a number of other factors have ensured the 'FM Receiver'
remained less popular in the UK - there's the difficulty of getting a
signal clean enough for (relatively) sensitive tuners which renders an
adequate tabletop or portable 'radio' a better solution for many people
and the arrival of the 'telly' put paid to 'serious radio' listening in
the evenings for the great majority of Brits.

It was also the case that FM Stereo and Colour TV arrived in the UK in a
similar time period, and that the BBC tended to give priority to expanding
the Colour TV network. The result was that FM Stereo only expanded slowly.
For some years in the UK 'stereo' was for occasional programmes on radio 3,
from the transmitters in the south-east. So much so that HFN used to list
each month the couple of dozen broadcasts for the next month. They fitted
into two or three column inches. Clear sign that by then 'radio' was the
poor relation of 'TV' so far as the BBC were concerned. And of course there
were no national independent broadcasters for radio...

Slainte,

Jim

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