I do. Most stations in my region are just crappy music and dumb call-in shows, but there’s still a few stations with quality programming. FM radio is where I get my news, where I listen to press conferences, old-school audio theatre and (surprisingly) where I get new music recommendations. Hard to believe that modern streaming platforms’ algorithms can be outperformed by traditional media.
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 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.
Sounds interesting, I think I’ll give the show a listen.
Cool! I’d be happy to learn what you think of it.
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!
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.
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.
No, but my dog does. I put the radio on when I’m not home because the background noise helps her keep calm.
Hell yes I do. There’s a great local rock station here.
I’ve got a good college radio station in the area. They don’t just play the same songs on repeat but play a good mix of alternative rock. Awkward student DJs and minimal ads.
The local community college has(d?) a good rock station with no ads but I am just out of range of their transmitter since we moved so I have not been able to listen for the last couple years.
In the US, the HD stations also don’t play as many or any ads, I don’t know how they are funded but its pretty cool. Mostly deep cuts or out of vogue genres. There are a couple of cool local jazz, blues, oldies or others.
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.
Everyday but through internet coz im an expat
I stream my local college radio station while I work. There’s charm in hearing the student DJs kind of stumble through everything as they play a wide assortment of music.
I drive a truck for work; the radio is absolutely a lifeline for me. Usually just local weather/traffic updates for whatever city I’m passing through, maybe the news if I stumble upon an NPR station in time for All Things Considered. I stick to my music/audiobooks all other times though.
Unless I’m passing through home. Listening to my hometown stations helps me get out of “work mode” at the end of my rotation.
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.
WWOZ and WMUH checking in. Sad day when NPR fucked over/ bought out another college great WLVR. Rest in peace Fritz.
