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.
If I am in the car and its a long drive, I usually play music off my phone. But if its a shorter drive or I’m not feeling the music, its my local NPR station, always.
Really enjoy WXRV 95.9 The River Boston. You can stream from a number of sources.
Yes, often. Between being in the car a lot since RTO mandates and being alone in the house a lot and needing to have some noise to help me focus on the task at hand, the radio is on a lot.
I have the advantage of a great, local, non-profit radio station with real, local DJs that just talk normal. They play an abundance of local and emerging artists alongside classic artists. Since it’s non-profit, there are no commercials other than a “sponsored by” message from time to time.
Not for about 2 years, and it was only because I was in a carpool situation at my old job so local radio stopped any potential bitching.
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.
Every once in a while when I’m bored. I grew up with an old portable radio and then an ipod nano 6 that had a radio, whenever I got tired of the music I’d just open the radio app and listen for a few hours.
There’s a lot of music in my country that I don’t listen to often but every once in a while I get the urge.
It’s also very nostalgic, listening to someone slice talk and play songs they want to play, with timed segments instead of an algorithm , listening to the stations fade when you get too far like on childhood road trips.
No, not in years. I don’t even know whether the one in my car works. Radio is crappy music, too much talking, constant ads: just not worth it
Streaming is like you want radio to be: select a genre or band and it just keeps playing
Just whichever NPR affiliate comes in clearest on a drive.
It’s always fun trying to find the next one when the previous goes out of range on road trips. Yes, we could look it up on a phone, but it’s more fun to guess each station genre as quickly as possible.
“Country, Christian, Christian country, classic rock, country, WAIT this might be NPR…”
Try , https://radio.garden/ its free music for everbody from around the world
Omg it has am radio too. I haven’t listened to am in such a long time, my phone only had FM. Thank you for this knowledge
Rarely. And I’m a ham.
I’m a ham.
Yeah… I’m a bit chubby myself :(
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.
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.
I do. I listen to our local Classical station almost every day. Its quality has been constantly good for so many decades. I also listen to some other music stations on the Internet from time to time, but I try to avoid those that have hourly news…
Very often yes, but I wouldn’t ever again if the only channel I listen to went under.
CKUA, it’s donor sponsored. The variety of programming is why it’s not just the excellent variety of music played but the spoken word, poetry, interviews, The Road Home segment, and more.
The rest here is top 50 slop FM or cuckservative AM indoctrination for farmers.
Occasionally I use Shortwave on Linux while I do house chores for web radio. Again, similar idea but foreign donor sponsored channels from other countries besides Canada. CKUA is also in their channel list.
Came here to CKUA. Such a treasure!
i use internet radio all the time
