Radio is still so prominent in UK life that their radios are required to be able to receive digital broadcasting. The National Association of Broadcasting here has given up.
More theaters used to have “rear window” captioning. The captioning would be printed backwards on a display in the back of the auditorium, and you could pick up a Plexiglass device beforehand to see the captions and the movie. For Phantom Menace, I tried to hold up my watch to read the captions to figure out what the Jar Jar Binks species was saying. It didn’t help.
When walking around a neighborhood looking for Christmas lights, I was drawn several blocks to a flashing red stop beacon.