{"id":1229,"date":"2011-07-01T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2011-07-01T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T14:29:00","slug":"radio-makes-us-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/radio-makes-us-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio makes us happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_888\" style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ccradio-sw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-888\" class=\"size-full wp-image-888\" title=\"ccradio-sw\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ccradio-sw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ccradio-sw.jpg 250w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ccradio-sw-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Your key to happiness<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I think we radio listeners have known this all along (Source: <a title=\"The Telegraph\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/8603551\/Radio-makes-Britons-happier-than-TV-and-web.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Radio came out top, beating both TV and online, in the study called \u2018Media and the Mood of the Nation\u2019, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Watching TV and surfing the internet also significantly boosts people\u2019s happiness and energy levels, but failed to come close to the positive effect radio listening has on Britons\u2019 well-being.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are the happiest and most energetic when listening to radio. It plays an important emotional role in people\u2019s lives,\u201d said Mark Barber, planning director at the Radio Advertising Bureau which commissioned the research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"The Telegraph\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/8603551\/Radio-makes-Britons-happier-than-TV-and-web.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article hear<\/a>, then turn on a radio and let the happiness begin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we radio listeners have known this all along (Source: 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 \u2018Media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,439,4082,437,440],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-radio","tag-radio-happiness","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-swling","tag-uk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-jP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61891,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/radio-sighting-in-the-k-drama-happiness\/","url_meta":{"origin":1229,"position":0},"title":"Radio Sighting in the K-Drama Happiness","author":"Thomas","date":"February 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Mark Hirst, who writes: I spotted this radio in the Korean zombie outbreak drama 'Happiness' currently showing on Netflix. 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