I have found almost all radio status near me play a mix of 12 songs and ads. Tuning in to any station was likely to result in ads and not music.

My radio is tuned to static so I can get into my car without being forced into hearing an ad while my Bluetooth connects and I can start playing a book.

I listen to NPR everyday. I listen to college radio stations where young people awkwardly talk about young people topics and the music they play stretches my tastes. Radio is human and alive. Where ever you are, acquire a radio and scan with your little fingers and listen with your ears.

I still listen to FM radio and, if you’ll please pardon me tooting my own horn, I also help make some of it as part of a long-running weekly talk show. (I’ve been off the air for the past couple weeks, but I’m back next week.)

I was a listener to the station and the program for a long time before I joined up. I still listen to radio often, and the medium continues to mean a great deal to me.

Yes, we have community radio here, and I listen & also contribute a little $ each month.

ETA: there used to be one good commercial station too, alternative rock, but they got bought out by a bigger conglomerate and now are a Spanish station, and unfortunately not a Spanish alternative station, that would be awesome but no, just a pop station, a clone of the others we already had!

Really enjoy WXRV 95.9 The River Boston. You can stream from a number of sources.

Nope. Never. It’s like 20% music, 10% talking, and 70% bullshit advertisements. They lost me 20 years ago when I got satellite radio. Now I just connect my phone to my vehicle for my entertainment.

Yes, but just in my 2004 truck with a broken CD player. so it’s my only option for entertainment.

I used to listen to the CBC every day but switched to podcasts years ago because the CBC turned to utter lame shit, more worried about their budget than actual journalism.

My car radio is tuned to the 80s/90s station. When I start my car if a song is playing, I’ll listen. If an ad comes on, I’ll mute it, and usually forget to unmute it again. Sometimes I hear two or three songs in a row before an ad. Sometimes I remember to unmute it, and maybe hear another song.

I could make an effort to have music in the car, but I don’t care that much about it. I’m okay with silence.

Npr classic station for commutes and house cleaning.

No.

My personal rule is that I do not consume any media where I have to see or hear adverts.

When I’m in someone else’s car that’s an exception and they can listen to whatever they want, it’s their car. But if I’m driving? Absolutely not.

Yes, in the car. But I immediately change frequency when it comes to ads or start to talk too much about useless stuff (for example for some reason at 9am most channels need to waste 15 minutes of people’s lives by reading gpt-generated horoscopes)

It’s a way to listen to something different all the time, otherwise if I choose Spotify it always the same stuff

Although some radios are like 50 tracks on loop with pre-recorded talk segments pretending to be live.

If I am in the car and its a long drive, I usually play music off my phone. But if its a shorter drive or I’m not feeling the music, its my local NPR station, always.

Yes, often. Between being in the car a lot since RTO mandates and being alone in the house a lot and needing to have some noise to help me focus on the task at hand, the radio is on a lot.

I have the advantage of a great, local, non-profit radio station with real, local DJs that just talk normal. They play an abundance of local and emerging artists alongside classic artists. Since it’s non-profit, there are no commercials other than a “sponsored by” message from time to time.

Not for about 2 years, and it was only because I was in a carpool situation at my old job so local radio stopped any potential bitching.