Benefits of listening to the radio

Posted by Chidinma on Friday March 20, 2015 at 15:58:7:

Radio has always been the easiest way of getting information and news of happenings around the world; since TV Decoders and Satellite channels became popular, most people have forgotten the use and importance of owing a radio; it is not surprising for you to visit a home without a radio these days.

This article will focus on the benefits of listening to radio;

1. Free of Cost: you pay for subscriptions to get access to good TV channels but for radio, you listen to it at no cost at all; unless you are listening to internet radios where you have to use data megabytes to access the internet in order to get the radio channels.

2. Cheap to Purchase: radios are very cheap to purchase, there are even small pocket radios that sale for much less than N1,000; you also spend little or no cost to maintain a radio; which makes it a better option for getting updates on happenings around you.

3. It can work with batteries: another benefit of listening to radio is that you don’t need electricity to access radio channels; most transistor radios operate with batteries; and if you stay in an area where there is epileptic power supply, you may be cut off from vital news due to power failure; even without electricity you can still stay up to date with a small radio.

4. Reports news events: Some breaking news or important announcements are always made via radio transmission first before it gets to TV channels or even Newspapers.