Anybody else listens to the radio?

I listen to NPR all the time. And not just for the news, I love those stupid quiz shows they have on the weekend.

During the football season I listen to ESPN radio.
 
I still listen to the radio, but mostly at home when I'm cooking or taking a bath. It doesn't help that most radio stations play shitty music and are filled with annoying commercials.
 
Not deliberately but everyone else in my family still legitimately listens to the radio for music, and I hear it whenever they drive me somewhere.
 
I would but I’d rather listen to silence. The commercial to content ratio is way off. Needs more content and less commercials.

Top 40 radio is kind of a bummer. I like pop but they don’t rotate in newer songs and rotate out older songs fast enough.

Talk radio is way too bassy. The board operators live to drop the treble and boost the bass in the voice mixes. Can’t stand it.

NPR is very hot or miss. Mostly miss.
 
i get a little bit of 'ol fascist NPR every day, practically.

Actually, I wake up to fuckin Bible radio of all things, but only because it comes in on my old weird alarm clock better than anything else.
 
Jroderton said:
Sounds like we have the exact same job for the most part. Once there is a good contest/giveaway going on you'd think there were a thousand people listening at one given time.
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Concert tickets go REALLY fast and we got tons of people calling in or registering for them. And, right now, we're giving away Amazon Echo's everyday during the month of October and that response has been off the charts as well.

Then there's the weather. When that shit gets bad, people listen. They have their phone apps, but they call us for specifics since we have our own meteorologist on staff.
 
Probably 6+ hours a day, more during weekends.

Almost all the time in the street to begin with. But I wake up with radio and go to sleep with it too.
 
I wake up to NPR every morning, and also listen to baseball on the radio if I don't feel like watching on TV, but other than that not much. Occasionally I'll put it on in the car if I don't feel like listening to a podcast or spotify, but there's only one halfway decent music station in my area.
I listened to the radio constantly growing up, but Spotify and iTunes pretty much replaced that.
 
vonStirlitz said:
Respect for the AM love. But out of curiosity why? Is it due to frequency reception or a specific love of a station that is only on AM?

I only ask, as it is as peculiar as listening to SW or LW these days, particularly on a tech savvy forum.
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LA area, so there's only one 24 hour news station that gives headlines constantly (KNX 1070 CBS news) that doesn't annoy me.

There's nothing on FM that i have found other than NPR, and my car doesn't have HD radio so i can't listen to KNX on its FM bandwidth.

NPR is more about long-form news usually, whereas KNX is more about the quick headlines and i can ingest a whole days news in less than 30 min or so. Plus, its local.
 
I listen to my public radio station nearly every day. Morning Edition every morning, classical music during the day, and All Things Considered every evening. My local station is pretty good.
 
I only really use my car stereo, 40 minutes to and from work. So No. If it has commercials, I'm not fucking listening to it.100% use my cars Bluetooth with my phone anymore.

Even things like Sirius claiming to be commercial free are bogus. I don't want adverts for the station I'm actively fucking listening to either. I don't want some DJs opinion on a song or band, or how cool/nice they were when you met/saw them live. I don't want to know about a concert that's coming up. I don't want to hear about some contest or charity drive. If I'm trying to listen to music, music is almost certainly all I want to be hearing. When I want to hear people talk, there are other sources for that. /Rantoff

I rip any music I want from YouTube, or just create a YouTube playlist for my phone. Download podcasts etc. A lot of audiobooks.

I barely watch live TV anymore due to commercials. If it wasnt for apps like adblock etc, I don't know if I could even stomach YouTube anymore.

Damn went way off topic sorry.
 
I work in retail and we have this absolute festival of musical diarrhea all day long, so when it's a quiet day I tend to put on the adio instead. I listen to www.pinguinradio.com, which is a pretty decent alternative station, which is still very suitable for the genral public and no commercials.
 
daveo42 said:
I listen to out local NPR station, but that's about it. Use to listed to 97X (actual indie radio station) in Cincinnati until that was shut down and turned into a Spanish radio station, though that was ages ago. Recently I would listen to WNKU (college/indie station) as well, but that's also been shut down and replaced by a country station.

Radio all sounds the same when it comes to music. For music, I usually go with satellite.
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I can't for the life of me understand how you feel that way. All of Sirius combined feels less satisfying than WNKU to me. I'd give up all of Sirius XM in an instant if it brought WNKU back.

Good radio is magic.

seventynine said:
BBC 6 Music (and a little Radio 4 too) while at work. Keaveny, Laverne and RadMac. I switch over once Lamacq starts up.
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Sirius XM should add BBC6. It would be a game changer. Satellite radio sucks. Including the indie channels like XMU. Repetitive as Clear Channel.
 
I’ll listen to it at work. Certain types of electronic devices aren’t allowed in the facility, so the radio is pretty much all I can use for music. I generally listen to 98.1; they’ll do ten songs in a row before they do commercials.
 
I’m one of those weird millennial that likes the radio, listen to it a ton. I flip between rock stations and country stations and variety stations mostly, but I do listen to pop and hip hop stations too. I’m almost always able to find something I like to listen to.
 
Yup. I have Sirius XM and I love it. I mainly listen to POTUS 124 in the morning and NPR. I use my Amazon Echo to listen to it at home and the radio in my car. Every day.

I also listen to the flash briefings from NPR on my Echo as well as the Daily from The NY Times.
 
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