Radio, The forgotten Medium ? Do you listen to it?

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fuzzybuddy

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I was a teen in the early 60s. Right in the beginning of the British Invasion. The Beatles. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yah!! So I lived and died by "The Top Forty" on radio. But, now, I don't listen to radio. Yet, today, more people supposedly listen to radio than watch TV. So is radio the forgotten medium? Do you listen?
 

I assume you mean at home, not just in the car.

Listening to it at this very moment.

Use it far more than the television, also listen to several podcasts.

I have internet radios in the lounge, kitchen and bedroom, with presets set to German, Dutch and US stations. I also listen to some very small specialised UK local stations such as Angel Radio in Havant.

With around 30,680 (and counting) stations to choose from I can usually find something!
 
Nope!

I don't own a radio other than the one in the car and I don't listen to it.

These days I listen to music on my computer while I surf the net.

During my working years, I used to listen to the radio in the morning over coffee and in the car to hear the weather and traffic news so I could make sure the coast was clear into work and back home at night.

I've thought about buying a radio because I did enjoy listening to the NPR shows like Letters From America with Alistair Cooke, Car Talk with Click and Clack or A Prarie Home Companion with Garrison Keilor. I know that those shows are off the air but I would like to find something similar to listen to while I putter around the house.
 

I don't own a radio per se... except in the car, and I always listen to my favourite music station on there when I'm out and about, usually Radio 2 . Hubs listens to a high brow channel when he's in the car all talk and classical music...

I listen mostly to music on my computer..youtube spotify etc... and also on my google Home device...
 
Yes,I listen to the radio all the time in my apt,I don't have a car or drive
I have 2 Bose CD/radios one in my bedroom,other in living room
I listen to classical music,,local station plays a mix of songs,jazz station in Toronto
I never listen to music on my computer
 
We have satellite radio in our vehicles and also throughout the house and patio using the PA system. We have the option of having the radio piped into only the rooms we want the radio to be heard. No commercials makes the listening more enjoyable.
 
I always have the car radio turned on to music when I'm driving. I have a radio in my workshop, and it, too, is turned on to music whenever I'm out there for any length of time.
 
For me, years ago, most radio was local and there was an actual person behind the microphone. A listener could sometimes call in and request a particular song, and there were local talk shows, local news, and local advertising. It all seemed relevant. Then, when most of the stations automated (was it the 1970s? 1980s?) I pretty much lost interest.

When we moved to our current location a few years ago, we discovered that there is a small, local, live radio station. We now have a portable radio with battery backup that we use during power outages and major storms but it's also pleasant to listen to sometimes just because . . . it's enjoyable and relevant again.
 
I listen to some radio every day, either at home or in my car. Depending on my mood, if I want to hear news I listen to AM talk shows, if I want music I listen to KBCO for a mix of classic rock, new alternative rock, blues, reggae, etc. :jammin: On nights I need help falling asleep, I listen to the late night Coast show with George Noory, depending on what subject they are discussing.
 
I remember, when I was a Freshman in high school, I got a small transistor radio for my birthday. Talking about happy! I already had an old "dial the station" type radio in my bedroom upstairs that I'd listen to when I didn't want to watch my step-parents favorite Saturday night tv show...…..Lawrence Welk.

Years ago, I use to listen to the Dr. Laura Schlessinger Show on a radio in my room. In the vehicles I owned back then, I had enough music 8-tracks and cassettes, I didn't listen to any music radio.

Today, no radio in the home, but do listen to cable music stations on our tv and cd's in our vehicle and boat. If we don't have a cd with us, will listen to two different Classic Rock stations in our Durango. During the Christmas holidays, we will listen to a local station that plays Christmas music.

We both really wish there was a station that played Oldies and Motown, but very little call for that music here...…...due to age bracket.
 
I have not found an "easy listening" station in this area. Anything else to me is just noise. In Arizona I used to listen to KAHM from Prescott.

Radio in the car isn't working, I can't get motivated to fix it.
 
I keep the radio or the TV on all the time. I don't like a quiet house. I listen to the radio more than I watch TV.
 
We have radios in every room and vehicle. As children, we listened to Radio Luxembourg (208 mtrs, medium wave) in the evenings and later, to the Pirate stations such as "Caroline" broadcast from a ship in the North Sea.

I used to like BBC radio2 when it was an 'easy listening' station. It also catered for 'niche' interests such as organ or brass band music. Now it's become 'mainstream' and most of the niche programmes have disappeared. I never listened to Angel Radio although I worked in Havant for many years.
 
I'm a serious Sirius listener. Total commercial free music, any music you would dream of listening to on command. Old time radio shows from days before TV. News, Medical, Religious, anything and everything. My favorite is Howard Stern who is on live Monday-Wednesday 7 am-11:30 am.
 
Manatee said:
I have not found an "easy listening" station in this area. Anything else to me is just noise. In Arizona I used to listen to KAHM from Prescott.

Radio in the car isn't working, I can't get motivated to fix it.
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With more than 30,000 stations available on the internet you must be hard to p,ease!

KAHM is available here in Fife, Scotland on the portal "Tunein", which I think is US portal so no copyright problems?

https://tunein.com/
 
My car came equipped with Sirius, free for the first four months. I found that I hardly used it, because I have three FM stations that I really like, and they are more than enough for me. All are NPR stations, one is mainly talk programs, and the other two are classical music. Between those stations and my millions of CD's, I have no need for Sirius, so I let it go.

At home, I mainly play the CD's, once in a while one of the classical music stations.
 
I had the police radio on all the time. I actually enjoyed driving my personal vehicle without any music or talk radio.
 
While doing other things online, I often listen to CBC podcasts .. there is so much content to choose from. Other times, I'm listening to Spotify or my YouTube song list. In the car, it's usually FM radio .. R&B, Jazz, or some specialty music genre .. or talk radio. Many a time, I've rushed in
to find a podcast on the computer that I'd been listening to on the car radio.
 

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