In article , Dave Plowman (News)
wrote:
In article , Iain Churches
wrote:

I wonder what part of 1% of the population own an audio system for
the purpose of listening to spoken word?

Which population, where? In the UK I suspect that quite a number of
people spend a fair amount of their listening time on speech from
sources like radio 4. Like yourself I have no idea what percentage
of the population they may be. But I'd be surprised to find it was
less than 1 percent.


I was thinking about those who listen *exclusively* to spoken word as
opposed to music.

I doubt many listen to just one thing exclusively.

I also suspect that many people watch TV and films and listen to the radio,
and spend far more time intentionally listening to speech than to music.
Apart from 'enthusiasts' like those here I suspect that these days many
people listen to 'AV' systems, not 'audio', but of course that still
requires an audio system as part of its functioning.

Certainly I listen to R4 and watch BBC4 quite a fair bit. These days R4
often via iPlayer. And still find it good to be able to listen via a decent
audio setup.

Slainte,

Jim

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