Listening to the radio, still?

I still have working radios and I still turn them on sometime to serve as background noise.
 

astralcat said:
Same. I always have the radio on in the car - I had to change stations recently - the station I always listen to started playing Christmas music in November - nope. not gonna listen. I keep the radio on very softly.
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Thank you, I thought that I was the only one .I also changed to a station that I don't usually listen to until that station also started playing christmas music, so now I listen to CD's in the car. I like to listen to the radio indoors but until the christmas music stops probably around the middle of January I will listen to music on my phone.
 
ChiroDoc said:
You can get a bunch of the old radio shows on YouTube. Once in awhile I'll fire one up, sit back, relax, and not be bothered with looking at anything while letting my imagination take over. It's too bad radio programs went out of style.
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“Who Knows What The Shadow Knows”. That was one I liked to listen to, until my mom would come in and turn it to another station or turn the radio off. She said listening to that in the evening might give me nightmares.
 
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I have 2 Bose CD/radios one in my living room where I listen to classical music in morning while eating breakfast, in afternoon & evening,also play my CD's
The other is in my bedroom, I listen to a Canadian station in Fort Erie, Ont which plays songs from the 70's- 90's,I turn it on when I wake up
 
Trade said:
I live in Alabama.

The choices here are:

1. Holy Roller Radio
2. Country Music Radio
3. Right Wing Talk Radio.

So, no, I don't listen to the radio.
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That's what I get if I cross the river into West Virginia, but here in Ohio we also have Rap.

However, there's always NPR and that's what I listen to every day. My little battery operated radio goes with me from the kitchen to the room where I relax and do puzzles. It stands between me and the world of electronics and the Idiocracy.
 
Della said:
That's what I get if I cross the river into West Virginia, but here in Ohio we also have Rap.

However, there's always NPR and that's what I listen to every day. My little battery operated radio goes with me from the kitchen to the room where I relax and do puzzles. It stands between me and the world of electronics and the Idiocracy.
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The other thing that's depressing about listening to the radio is that when they say they are playing "oldies" it's songs from the 90's. Jesus Christ! The 90's? Oldies are songs from the 60's!
 
CaliS said:
I started out with a toot-a-loop!

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I listened to the radio, then cassette tapes, then CDS and now I have a subscription to Spotify.
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When my radio was new it was known as a wireless, because the term referred to its ability to transmit signals through the air without physical wires, contrasting it with the wired telegraphs and telephones of the time.
 
Lilac said:
I'm always listening to the radio in the car when I'm by myself. Hubby doesn't like listening to it in the car unless we are traveling somewhere.

If I want to get work done inside the house (TV on = nothing done), I turn on the radio like the one below. I sold my cassette tapes years ago at a sale & now I wish I would have kept them. I'll still pull out CDs & a few records from time to time. In the basement, I have my little radio/CD player that I used in my office at work.

Outside, I have our Milwaukee radio & I'll plug in my I-Pod to play.

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I need to look for something like what you have. I don’t own a radio or CD player anymore but wish I did. I remember looking in a store just a couple years ago and no radios for sale whatsoever! I’ll have to give it a go again one of these days.
 
When I’m in my basement where my desktop computer is I play the free version of Pandora, set to oldies. I can also put on Pandora on the tv but I rarely do that as I rarely have the tv on. In the car, there aren’t many stations where I live but I can get public radio out of Wichita which is nice.
 
Trade said:
I live in Alabama.

The choices here are:

1. Holy Roller Radio
2. Country Music Radio
3. Right Wing Talk Radio.

So, no, I don't listen to the radio.
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Trade, is it convenient to stream radio over the internet? Most of our internet usage is radio from around the country.
 
Trade said:
The other thing that's depressing about listening to the radio is that when they say they are playing "oldies" it's songs from the 90's. Jesus Christ! The 90's? Oldies are songs from the 60's!
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I like the 90s music, and even-though The Nineties is 30 years ago the music doesn't quite fit the "oldies" genre, unless your birth year starts with a 2.
 
Old school here. I have radios all over my house. I listen to AM talk shows, and turn the volume off during commercials. Also listen to the classical station if it is on, since it usually has music I like, and no commercials. Also listen to rock or jazz sometimes. Also local college stations occasionally.
 
I only listen to the radio in the car when I want to hear the traffic. My wife listens to the radio when she's driving so I listen to it then, usually the local NPR station but it's not something I choose to do.
 
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