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.
Rarely. And I’m a ham.
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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.
i use internet radio all the time
I’ve lived in Japan for 30 years but listen to an Australian radio station every day while working. It keeps me loosely connected with the motherland. Mostly music, competitions, gossip and generally useless information, very little news or current affairs.
I can’t concentrate while listening to albums or playlists of music I select, but somehow radio just becomes comfortable background noise … if that makes any sense.
I listen to BBC Radio because it’s still excellent. BBC Radio 6 is my go-to daily station which specialises in new music and has DJs who are passionate and have a lot of freedom, but the station also follows John Peel’s A-B-C format which keeps things nice and grounded. Also, BBC Radio 3 for jazz and classical (unlike Classic FM, which only plays movie soundtracks) and BBC Radio 3 Chill which is self-explanatory.
ABC’s Triple-J deserves an honourable mention. Student radio can be good as well.
The local commercial stations are all homogeneous slurry, lowest common denominator saccharin slop where every shred of character and local identity has been eradicated. I grew up listening to Rock FM (Lancashire) and Trent FM (Nottingham), both were cheesy but authentic local pop stations that have been thoroughly Borged into ultra-branded and means tested chaff. It’s adverts, relentlessly forced-cheery sponsored segments disguises as ‘banter’, desperately insincere attempts at audience engagement, and, occasionally, heavily edited and shortened versions of the same dozen songs.
Only omw to work in the mornings. Just use it to catch up on daily news. Usually covers stuff I read the night before though lol
Yes, we have community radio here, and I listen & also contribute a little $ each month.
ETA: there used to be one good commercial station too, alternative rock, but they got bought out by a bigger conglomerate and now are a Spanish station, and unfortunately not a Spanish alternative station, that would be awesome but no, just a pop station, a clone of the others we already had!
My phone Bluetooth is off by default so if I’m just going for a short drive I will listen to my local station. The music selection is generally decent and I don’t mind the chatter. I’ll also switch over for traffic reports if I’m stuck. I’m sure they’re just looking at google maps but it saves me having to do it.
Internet radio, all the time. It often just streams in the background on a Yamaha internet connected speaker.
Only in the work truck… unfortunately
Nope…I haven’t turned a radio on in at least a decade. Can’t stand all the commercials and so on. I have around 16K songs on a USB drive in my car, that’s what I listen to.
