Listening to the radio, still?

I'm old enough to just remember when network radio was the main form of home entertainment. I still like to listen to old time radio shows on the web but current AM broadcasting with their non stop commercials and no real programming is not for me.
 

I stream KPUP 100.5FM Community Radio Patagonia Arizona all day every day as background music.
KPUP community radio run by volunteers and is ad free, except for ads for KPUP.
I have a Sonos stereo system and it has a Wi-Fi connection for streaming.
Sometimes KPUP Tune-In streaming quality is degraded and I stream other content from Tune-In.
I can also choose from Amazon Music, Sonos Radio, iHeart Radio.
There are many other services available in the Sonos App but those are just the ones I have enabled.
I don't pay for any streaming services except maybe the Amazon one but I have Amazon Prime anyway.

I am not musically talented but enjoy music, just not ALL genres.

Oh and a late night adventure during the early to mid-70's was to drive out with friends to the highest point in our central Alabama county and listen to Beaker Street on KAAY, out of little rock Arkansas.
 

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I should add that part of the reason I don't listen to the radio anymore is because we don't have good reception for any of them where I live. Especially the ones I like to listen to.
 
All my car or home radio will pick up here is country. I have to get out and away a bit to pick up anything else. I like country but a constant diet of it can get old. "Tuner" app on Roku gives me some other choices and as someone said, You Tube. I also have a large collection of cd's that I pull out from time to time.
 
Llynn said:
I'm old enough to just remember when network radio was the main form of home entertainment. I still like to listen to old time radio shows on the web but current AM broadcasting with their non stop commercials and no real programming is not for me.
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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.
 
RambleTamble said:
The first thing I used to do when I'd come home was turn on the radio, and I'd always have the radio on in the car. At some point, commercials got to be so incessant, listening to the radio became intolerable, which was when I quit listening. I'd rather have quiet than have to listen to all those commercials. I never did get XM or Sirius radio, which I guess would have solved that problem. I just didn't feel the urge since there wasn't very much good contemporary music to listen to.

I watch a lot of YouTube videos, and they're now being overloaded with commercials. You have to get YouTube premium in order to get commercial free viewing. YouTube made almost $8 billion in profits last year; that was after they paid all the content providers and other operating expenses. Their parent company, Alphabet, made over $100 billion in profits.

It seemed like radio and entertainment in general was much better before it started to exist only for profit.
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that's where we're fortunate with the BBC radio stations.. there are no commericals on the BBC...tv or radio....
 
Nathan said:
I used to listen to the radio a lot, from pre-teen to growing up into adulthood. Music mostly, either while driving or sitting outside in the evening with a beer(and a cigarette). Listened to talk radio as well- favorite program was Leo Laporte's The Tech Guy, now a podcast called This week in Tech. But, life changed...around the early 2000s I started to find listening to the radio while driving distracting, and actually annoying. Silence while driving is just fine, and probably safer also.
Then I quit drinking beer, and a few years later quit smoking, and as quitting one habit leads to quitting another- I just quit listening to the radio as well.
These days, if I want to listen to music there's Youtube. For intellectual fulfillment- Google specific topics for reading.
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I still listen to a small radio at night, usually NPR, KBCO music or Coast to Coast am if they're taking about somethin like dreams or horoscopes, can't handle the other nonsense. I used to listen to LaPorte and Kommando to learn about computers, but not for years now. I also stopped listening to music while driving some years back, don't drive anymore.
 
Lilac said:
In the evening when nothing is on TV, we'll watch music videos on YouTube. I wish they'd bring back VH-1 & MTV like they were originally aired.
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I used to have VCR recordings of MTVs "Headbanger's Ball" recorded, along with some recordings from Dr. Dimento show and King Biscuit Flower Hour from my time in autobody school in Tennessee. That's been a few years ago!
 
I listened to XM radio in my cars for years. Now I listen to my selected music on my iPhone with Apple Music via Carplay. I've checked out a few XM channels and they now sound awful in comparison. I also listen to music at my gym through Apple Music, through my AirPods. The sound is incredible.
 
In the car almost always. Most times I’d rather hear music but Lia always prefers talk. I’m fine with Science Friday or Philosophy Talk on Sunday morning but I can’t have us chatting in the car when the radio is already talking. I always switch to music as soon as any conflict arises.
 
It's like sitting in a doctor's waiting room watching infomercials about their medicine.

And it shows just how much Big Pharma is taking us for... commercial time is supposedly expensive to get.
 
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