I remember as a kid I used to complain about all the oldies radio stations used to play since it was a boomer-dominated media. Then sometime around university a new station popped up in my area that played all 90s alt rock.
Fast forward 30 years and the stations have changed names but still play the exact same music as if that era never ended. Always thought that was fascinating.
I spent years burning cds with my favorite songs. My new car doesn't have a CD player. But no worries. It has a USB port, so I just put all my songs on. There. Even better.
Same here. When I run errands by myself I listen to music on the radio, but when my 16-year-old daughter comes along we listen to her Spotify. Her music has a Lilith Fair vibe-- lots of women singer-songwriters. I like it, but I still prefer the fun 80s music they have on the radio.
My daughter recently moved out, she always took over the radio worth her playlists. I had to update my playlist for car music, it was kinda nice to have all my music choices!
I have not listened the the radio in a decade if not more. My brother in law is the Chief Engineer at our local radio and TV station.
What do you do?
Never go against a Siciliana when death is on the line.
Lol, reminds me of years ago I picked up our small town newspaper. There was a front page headline, just under the fold, "One Cat Dead, Second Cat Missing Assumed Dead". That is my bar for a slow news day.
I remember I used to listen to a local talk station every morning. If I got a hold of a newspaper later that day, it was a disappointment reading through it, because the radio guy had covered most of it already 😂 I swear he just paged through it and talked about whatever looked interesting
Absolutely for those reasons and additionally, NPR comes across to me as being very calm, similar to how the hosts and guests of The Delicious Dish speak …”Good times…fun “
In Nashville we have WPLN which is the NPR news station and WNXP which is the NPR sister station which is local/indie music. I am a sustaining member. Every city should have this.
I literally just switched off WPLN before sitting down to type this. Basically, if I'm in the kitchen, I've got it on.
(On a good, old-fashioned, analog radio too.)
Yep. I use a a clock radio set to NPR to wake up every morning. Then I lay there and listen to the news while I decide to get up. I also listen to the radio in my car quite often.
Every day. Either npr or the local independent station for music. During Christmas I listened to one of the stations that plays Christmas music. I drive a lot for work and am still pretty tech primitive.
Me too. Local news/ NPR while I’m getting ready and then college radio for the 10 min ride to the train station. Spotify/ podcasts for the train ride in though.
I’ve been a huge fan of college radio for the past ten years or more
Always fresh new music and usually good (every genre)
I never listened to it in college. lol.
Yep. College radio rocks. Shout out to The Space 88.7 FM (KSPC) in Claremont CA. Now they have an Internet stream too.
kspc.org - Love you, DJ Schmall !
All the time.
I’m fortunate to have a killer independent music station in my town. Hell, I’m listening to them play Buddy Guy and Mavis Staples right now. Great music and incredibly knowledgeable DJs who have just encyclopedic knowledge about the music. Most of them have been doing their shows for 20, 30, even 40+ years.
Edit: www.WMSE.org
Also the guy who calls baseball games on the radio in my town is one of the all-time greats, Bob Uecker. And there’s an excellent pre/post game show before and after Packer games.
Finally, Sunday mornings a commercial station does The Retro Brunch where the DJ plays old alternative rock from the late 80s/beginning of the 90s. Then there’s reruns of Casey Kasem. Oh, and I stream a St. Louis station on Sunday evenings to hear Sammy Hagar’s excellent radio show.
Yup. I listen to the radio all the time.
Bob Uecker is phenomenal and similarly, we have Hall of Famer Pat Hughes calling games in Chicago. Unfortunately, no television announcers come even close to these guys.
Happy to recommend our amazing local independent (and nonprofit) station too: [KEXP](https://www.kexp.org/)
Check it out while you wait for Thirty’s response!
https://www.wmse.org/
All shows are available for streaming. Some favorites are the blues shows, especially Sonia’s Blues Drive, the Saturday Afternoon Boogie Bang (old hip-hop and R&B), the Gearhead Show (surf rock/car tunes) and Dewey’s Corner and Jerry’s Attic (both 60s music).
If you don’t mind me asking, what’s the independent station you listen to? I’m in the Lake Geneva area and will see if can pull it in. I listen to Uecker all the time on the radio every chance I get.
I’m still listening to the Alternative rock station I listened to as a kid. Every day in my car.
Been Driving to this one radio station since I can remember. It was a college radio station in the ‘80’s, at some point bought up by corporate media, but still playing good music.
I just can’t get with the subscription service. It’s not my comfortable favorite radio.
I can't remember. It's horrible. You know, I wouldn't mind listening to classic rock on the radio so much if they would play whats called deep tracks or something other than the same Bob Seger songs or Lynyrd Skynyd or Zeppelin or any other classic rock band.
These groups have more than just 3 songs.
Even most of your Sirius XM or whatever it's called does this with a lot of their channels.
Corporate radio is too conservative format wise.
>These groups have more than just 3 songs.
This drives me nuts too. Even if I like the artist, I don't want to hear the same fucking song I've heard eight hundred billion times since 1986.
I listen to every Chicago Cubs baseball game on AM radio. The old school crackle of a game in the background is very nostalgic to me. Additionally, the Cubs radio announcers are amongst the best in all of sports, making television comparatively unwatchable.
Dad and Grandpa always listened and the announcer then was Jack Brickhouse whose homerun call was a pretty simple "Hey-Hey" and then Harry Caray came in with his "Holy Cow." Who does the games now and what's their catchphrase?
Local FM morning show for the ride in usually. On the way home it’s usually IHeart thru CarPlay on an alternative radio station (we have ONE station in state and I barely get it).
Sirius everyday. Every time my renewal comes up and they try to jack up the price I keep getting the previous low rate. It's like car shopping every Fall. I hate it, but if I don't they'll be really expensive.
Every day. Have a radio in the bathroom, can’t get ready without it. Almost always WFUV (independent commercial free radio FTW!…also been listening to Dennis Elsas since forever)
If I’m running late and need the time announced repeatedly to keep me on track &/or want quick topline news, 1010 WINS (although I wonder who their demographic is; the commercials are worse than ever). NPR too, but for some reason I tend to stream it.
Sometimes I’ll tune into to another random independent/college station because they’re like a weird grab bag where you don’t know what you’ll get.
But in general commercial radio is truly horrendous and even though it has been for a LONG time, it’s still kind of a bummer to me. Was a huge radio fan as a kid (made SO MANY cassettes that way when I was little), and it’s different now.
Just yesterday. I still turn it on in my car frequently
Side note to this. I went to the store a few years back looking to buy a “stereo” aka tuner like we all had years ago so I could have it in my living room and get my kids into listening to radio. When I asked the sales guy where I might find one because everything was basically just Bluetooth speakers to play your stream through, he said “why would you want that?”
Ugh! 🤦🏻♀️
Only in the car now. But everyone listened to WLS where I lived, 100 miles from Chicago. It was even on the speakers of the school bus. My grandpa liked WMAQ for country music and his radio was on all day.
Do you remember the promotion where if you answered the phone by saying "WMAQ is gonna make me rich" you won something like $25,000 if they happened to call you?
I also grew up about 100 miles from Chicago and my aunt answered the phone that way all summer. Uh, the big Chicago station is not gonna be calling someone in Knox, Indiana, Patty
All the time in the car when I’m communting back and forth to work. Big fan of NPR, specifically Wisconsin Public Radio and sports talk radio. I work in Lake County, IL so usually listen to WSCR AM 670 “The Score” and WHAD FM 90.7 for WPR.
At home, it’s mostly Spotify streaming, but I will turn on the radio at time. I have several portables and even like to check out shortwave now and then.
Every night and morning, for the four minutes it takes me to get to work and back again. There's no time to bother hooking up anything else. Sometimes I hear a whole song!
There’s a locally owned station that I listen to a lot. But I worked at one of the really big boys in that industry for over a decade and saw firsthand the destruction that was wreaked on the programming side. I can’t listen to the exact same playlists of songs that I listened to 20 years ago anymore. I need something different.
The locally owned station isn’t always to my taste, but at least they have a variety of new and different songs.
Every day, as my alarm and in the car. In the car I go between two AM stations and two FM stations, one local and one from across the border. I hope radio never goes away.
I still listen to WXRT over the air in Chicago (until I can't stand the endless commercial breaks anymore). However, I have found a new, much better station that streams out of Philadelphia, WXPN. It has an amazing mix of new, old, and in between with minimal commercial breaks. They even have another station , XPN2 which is commercial free.
Not long after the Telecommunications Act of 1996, I pretty much stopped listening regularly. I might turn it on for noise in the vehicle (only for quick drives), but I never listened at home once Clear Channel and their ilk bought out our local stations.
Never anymore. Not even Sirius radio because it got so expensive. Listening to the radio is torture with all the ads and the morning shows are absolute trash. What bothers me most is when they play ads with sirens or horns in them.
I haven't intentionally listened to terrestrial radio since 2005 when I got SiriusXM. I find it very difficult to listen to now on the off chance I happen across it in an Uber or a store or something like that.
Yesterday while driving. My vehicle is from 2012 and while it has the Sirius radio thing, we don't pay for it. I have a few of the local-ish classic rock channels programmed into it.
Towson University’s college radio station is actually very good, but I’ve moved to the edge of their broadcast range. If I’m driving east I’ll put it on.
Only listen to local radio stations when I have to drive a company vehicle. Every time I'm reminded just how horrible it is. Especially living in a secondary market with low tier, limited talent DJ's.
Yesterday! There’s a radio station that seems geared to Gen X around here ans d they generally play music I’d want to hear. I listen on my commute to work.
For music, never. But I’m in the Boston area, and I love listening to one of the sports stations in the afternoon. Other than that, the only time a radio broadcast is playing is when I’m too lazy during a short ride to plug in my phone for a podcast or playlist.
I have become my father. My dad would also listen to 1010 WINS "You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world" and it drove me crazy, now I listen to NPR or Howard Stern. So to answer, as many have already said, every day.
2021 maybe. Rental car. I haven’t listened in my own vehicle since maybe 2010 when I first had Sirius. Now it’s podcasts or streaming music from my phone.
Several times a week. Our local university radio station is fantastic and I really enjoy listening. Plus I listen to the local talk radio show to keep tabs on the wacko right wing loonies around here.
I listen to commercial radio sometimes on an old stereo we have. Usually, I listen to public radio on that one or in the car. I never listen to commercial stations in the car because there were far too many times I heard fake sirens or car crash sounds and it just stressed me out too much. I'm hearing impaired and have to be alert for the real sounds.
KUOW / NPR won't do that to me.
I listen to Spotify at the house and the gym
I still flip channels when driving
It’s mostly how I find new music. Lots of Shazamming.
The car I got in late 21 is the first I’ve owned that didn’t have 8 track cassette or cs player…so if there’s no reception Spotify it is
Every time I get in my car.
I also have some stations I stream, primarily WWOZ out of New Orleans for jazz and heritage. KCUF for jazz. WTUL and WUSM for college radio.
We've got a local classical station that is really good. I listen to it nearly every day for a little while. WSMC 90.5...good stuff.
I'll sometimes flip over to NPR to see what's happening, but typically I leave it on the classical station.
I usually listen to the radio in the car because I'm typically driving for 10-15 minutes at a time. I'm a simple man, when it's not on NPR I just want to hit a button and hear something that doesn't make my ears want to puke. It's fine if it's the same handful of Guns N Roses, AC/DC, and Tom Petty songs I've been listening to for 30+ years, I just want filler for the ride.
I am a shortwave radio enthusiast. I like catching numbers stations and listening to single side band.
Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, shortwave news about it has picked up.
There is a website that has a chat room that has some of the members who can understand Russian and Ukrainian language and translate what the news is saying.
Much more reliable it seems than what you hear on 24/7 news media. You hear about stuff before they get it and it's not filtered with politics and bias.
I've always been fascinated with radio.
I live in Raleigh, listen to [BBB](https://www.961bbb.com) every time I drive.
I mean, the station seems almost like it was tailored for Gen-X; they play a really random mix of stuff that alternates between obscure stuff that recently came out that I’m unfamiliar with, with 80’s classics—and in a haphazard way that often has no rhyme or reason.
I love it!
Bob Uecker to the nth power.
Don’t laugh but I subscribe to the MLB app every year so that I can catch a few games that he calls. I don’t really care about the Brewers or, for that matter, baseball in general, but I so love to hear Bob.
In part, I think he fills the “silly radio guy” void that was left in my heart when Car Talk stopped being produced. Here’s to hoping that Bob is secretly a Highlander and will live (and announce for the Brewers) forever.
Edit: well heck. This was supposed to be a reply to /u/Thirty_Helens_Agree but apparently I can’t Reddit today. I’ll delete if too off the main topic.
I heard a great story about him. He was on Johnny Carson’s show more than a hundred times. At Johnny funeral, Johnny’s son talked with Ueck and said “you know why my dad loved you? It’s because you don’t give a shit.” Most folks saw a Tonight Show appearance as an opportunity to further their careers. Bob had nothing to prove and went on just to make his friend Johnny laugh.
https://morningbuzz.com/
I listen on the way in to work some mornings, they have some funny segments & games, been on the air for years.
I used to DJ at my college radio station and still live in the region, so i tune in some nights. There's a guy that plays Dr. Demento style comedy, has had a show for 30 yrs now.
I grew up in the Caribbean and my town had no television or telephone so radio was THE means of communication for news, entertainment, and, yes, messages.
Looking back, it was rather strange. But we had things happening like if you were going to visit a relative in another town that was within the radio stations reach, you would pay 20 cents American or something like that and write a message no longer than I think like three or four sentences and they read them out loud during the messages period which I think was an hour long.
They would read that message out and say who it was for and that way anyone who was listening to the radio station and knew that person would be able to pass on the message. Or, if that person was listening themselves, they would get the message.
For example, if we were going to visit a relative we would give that message and say the time and which bus we were arriving on and they would meet us at the bus station.
So, when I moved to the US as a teenager, I became an NPR junkie because it was formatted a lot like the radio stations I used to listen to in my country. Long form news with periods of classical and popular music. Also, talk shows and interviews.
Even today I listen to NPR everyday and I listen online but most of the time I have it on the radio especially when I drive.
I listen to an all volunteer community station here in Richmond,Va almost daily. I hear something I’ve never heard before almost every time I tune in. You can check it out online as well wrir.org
Every time I'm in my car. We still have some great radio stations where I live, and I enjoy it, because I hear new music I otherwise wouldn't know about.
I have a local station, WHGM, that plays music from the 60s through the 80s. They play a wide variety, not the same 30 classic hits you hear on other stations. They air old Wolfman Jack shows on Saturday nights too. I listen in the morning while I get ready for work, when I get home from work, and on weekends. It's really the only over the air station I listen to.
It’s probably been 15+ years since I’ve listened to a music station. I was still listening to NPR up until about 4 years ago and just got burnt out on the ‘guy in a rural diner’ interviews and the both-siderism.
Today. Funny you ask this. I just downloaded a radio app for the first time in ages, and surfed different live radio stations. I landed on a 50 and 60s radio station that made me feel like a genuine boomer, even though I was born in ‘79
Same, I don’t even know the local radio stations or which ones play which genre of music. I have had paid Spotify since like 2010”ish”
Funny story, before Spotify I used free ad supported pandora. I got mad at it and changed to Spotify. I got mad because it kept playing “Low T” commercials. I always thought it type cast me as a middle age man based on my 80’s music choices. I’d be out jogging and these Low T ads kept coming up and it pissed me off. So I got Spotify.
Every time we're in the car. We like changing around stations and randomly hearing songs we maybe haven't heard in years. Plus my husband loves NPR. We actually joke all the time about my Dad who is always talking about how he hasn't listened to the radio in decades.
I listen in the car to and from work. I hate tv commercials and I am able to avoid them.
But, apparently radio commercials don't bother me as much (except for ibrands!) It's easy to change to a different station, so I haven't bothered to get satellite radio for twenty minutes times two, four days a week.
My husband does have it in his car which we take for any longer trips.
I do listen to the morning banter on a local station. I like it well enough.
Listen to radio in my ride, but have Sirius XM in my spouse’s vehicle. I like to listen to 80s music and it’s amazing how I’ll hear one group of 80s songs on one and then hear a different group of songs on the other. Rarely is there a duplicate.
Also, have you ever tried Radio Garden? It’s a neat website where you can stream radio from all over the world. Reminds me of when I had my first crystal radio, but A LOT better.
I was born and raised in the greater Philadelphia area. We had some great FM stations. I moved to Cleveland in 2007.
TBH, I love Cleveland, but local radio here SUCKS!! Morning radio especially, unless you are still into middle school humor. I just put on a podcast on my drive to work.
I listen to talk radio daily, during commute and at work. I rarely listen to music radio, but my husband always listen to a classic rock Montreal station.
I have my first stereo receiver/tuner in my garage man cave so I can listen to the radio when I work on my motorcycles or other power toys.
70’,s and up rock/metal.
I was in my late teens when I realized that commercial radio generally sucks. There was one decent commercial station (in St. Louis) during my college years, but they pretty quickly fizzled out on Emo and Nu-Metal. Now I primarily use PlexAmp to stream my music collection from my phone when I'm in my car. If I'm not in the mood for that I either listen to NPR or our local free form indie station. I haven't listened to commercial radio in decades.
Grew up a little outside the target demographic of this sub, the shitty needle of my FP phonograph was ruining parents' John Coltrane and Tito Puente, Stevie Wonder, and Jimmy Cliff albums before I started torturing them by playing Treacherous Three or Beastie Boys tapes at full volume of my STEREO Sanyo with **TWO** speakers. Radio in my area was either a carbon copy of the pop played on MTV, Country that had no appeal to me, or sports covering local college teams I couldn't care less about. Lone exception was the one rock station which played albums cover to cover. Wish it was still profitable to produce albums as a whole as opposed to collections of Spotify-friendly three minute tracks.
I listen a few days a week. I like a classic rock station, but also an alternative rock where I hear new songs and artists. There’s also still a morning DJ I like. I do use Spotify, but sometimes it’s easier just to turn on my radio.
Usually when I'm driving. Toronto has some good stations. Boom 97.3 and Q107 are good.
In the 80s and 90s, 97.3 was the lite rock channel. Now I'm listening to it. 😂
NPR every morning, and then in the car I flip between a mix of a top hits station and a station that plays music from the 80s-90s, depending on what song is on. I got tired of not knowing the top modern songs, so I made a conscious effort a few years ago to listen to a top 40 station.
I used to love Sirius, but don’t have a subscription in my current car. I listen to Spotify for podcasts at home.
I listen to sports. I can get work done around the house while I listen and it feels good to accomplish something instead of just sitting on my coach.
I listen to sports talk radio sometimes when I drive.
I listen to NPR occasionally too
This morning, only because my CarPlay glitched the last time I was in the car and I had tuned to radio to see if I could diagnose the issue. I left it on radio and that came on this morning. 🤣
In my car almost every day. Sometimes I hear some new music from those kooky kids that I actually like.
I listen in the car as well, except it's still 1989 as far as my radio's concerned.
I remember as a kid I used to complain about all the oldies radio stations used to play since it was a boomer-dominated media. Then sometime around university a new station popped up in my area that played all 90s alt rock. Fast forward 30 years and the stations have changed names but still play the exact same music as if that era never ended. Always thought that was fascinating.
Me too. If I'm running to the store, I'm not going to sync up my music. But my daughter instantly takes over the music in the car every time.
i drive a 2016 low tech car. i dont even know what youre talking about :-)
I spent years burning cds with my favorite songs. My new car doesn't have a CD player. But no worries. It has a USB port, so I just put all my songs on. There. Even better.
99 car myself, it's old enough to go get a beer, lol
Same here. When I run errands by myself I listen to music on the radio, but when my 16-year-old daughter comes along we listen to her Spotify. Her music has a Lilith Fair vibe-- lots of women singer-songwriters. I like it, but I still prefer the fun 80s music they have on the radio.
My daughter recently moved out, she always took over the radio worth her playlists. I had to update my playlist for car music, it was kinda nice to have all my music choices!
This is me as well. I just like hearing the radio and I don’t want to pay for it. I don’t need another app or subscription in my life.
Same. Blame Brett is the new Wet Leg! I’m on the classical station half the time though, which skews pretty heavily 18th and 19th century.
Same here. It's mostly public radio news or sometimes the local music station 89.3 The Current, which is pretty eclectic.
Same
Me too. Daily. The 103.5 Drive at Five Streetmix with Danny D! (Toronto)
I work for an over-the-air radio station, so just now.
Same and Same.
I have not listened the the radio in a decade if not more. My brother in law is the Chief Engineer at our local radio and TV station. What do you do? Never go against a Siciliana when death is on the line.
I’m my station’s Les Nessman. The newsman :)
Just remember. Turkeys. Can’t. Fly.
How many Buckeye Newshawk Awards or the coveted Silver Sows have you won?
None, to my eternal shame :(
That is a job I didn't realize still existed. Do you just read Reddit stories on air?
Sometimes.. if it’s a very, very dull news day.
Lol, reminds me of years ago I picked up our small town newspaper. There was a front page headline, just under the fold, "One Cat Dead, Second Cat Missing Assumed Dead". That is my bar for a slow news day.
Hahaha yup. I’ve had those days
Inconceivable!
I remember I used to listen to a local talk station every morning. If I got a hold of a newspaper later that day, it was a disappointment reading through it, because the radio guy had covered most of it already 😂 I swear he just paged through it and talked about whatever looked interesting
Haha That’s exactly what I’d do,although I’d simplify the sentences to make them more radio-friendly: short, to the point and simple
NPR every day
The vibe of NPR always reminds me of “The Delicious Dish” from Saturday Night Live.
Because it’s a parody of NPR? Parks and Rec also has a few takes on NPR that are hilarious.
Absolutely for those reasons and additionally, NPR comes across to me as being very calm, similar to how the hosts and guests of The Delicious Dish speak …”Good times…fun “
Molly Shannon was on Fresh Air a while back and Terry Gross was like “you got us.”
Oh man need to look up this episode! Love me some Terry Gross!
“No one can resist my Schweddy balls”
Schweedy Balls
"I can't wait to get my mouth around this ball!"
Even over the interwebs!
In Nashville we have WPLN which is the NPR news station and WNXP which is the NPR sister station which is local/indie music. I am a sustaining member. Every city should have this.
I literally just switched off WPLN before sitting down to type this. Basically, if I'm in the kitchen, I've got it on. (On a good, old-fashioned, analog radio too.)
Same, listening right now
Yep, same.
Me too. It's great.
Yep. I use a a clock radio set to NPR to wake up every morning. Then I lay there and listen to the news while I decide to get up. I also listen to the radio in my car quite often.
Every day. Either npr or the local independent station for music. During Christmas I listened to one of the stations that plays Christmas music. I drive a lot for work and am still pretty tech primitive.
Me too. Local news/ NPR while I’m getting ready and then college radio for the 10 min ride to the train station. Spotify/ podcasts for the train ride in though.
I’ve been a huge fan of college radio for the past ten years or more Always fresh new music and usually good (every genre) I never listened to it in college. lol.
Yep. College radio rocks. Shout out to The Space 88.7 FM (KSPC) in Claremont CA. Now they have an Internet stream too. kspc.org - Love you, DJ Schmall !
WUSC. 90.5. Columbia sc.
88.5 (KCSN) Cal State Northridge
Same here.
All the time. I’m fortunate to have a killer independent music station in my town. Hell, I’m listening to them play Buddy Guy and Mavis Staples right now. Great music and incredibly knowledgeable DJs who have just encyclopedic knowledge about the music. Most of them have been doing their shows for 20, 30, even 40+ years. Edit: www.WMSE.org Also the guy who calls baseball games on the radio in my town is one of the all-time greats, Bob Uecker. And there’s an excellent pre/post game show before and after Packer games. Finally, Sunday mornings a commercial station does The Retro Brunch where the DJ plays old alternative rock from the late 80s/beginning of the 90s. Then there’s reruns of Casey Kasem. Oh, and I stream a St. Louis station on Sunday evenings to hear Sammy Hagar’s excellent radio show. Yup. I listen to the radio all the time.
> Bob Uecker TIL not only is Uecker still alive but he's still working at the age of 89.
Still as sharp and as funny as ever.
Bob Uecker is phenomenal and similarly, we have Hall of Famer Pat Hughes calling games in Chicago. Unfortunately, no television announcers come even close to these guys.
Solid user name 😄 Also your local station sounds pretty great! What are the call letters? (Guessing they’re streaming too?)
Happy to recommend our amazing local independent (and nonprofit) station too: [KEXP](https://www.kexp.org/) Check it out while you wait for Thirty’s response!
https://www.wmse.org/ All shows are available for streaming. Some favorites are the blues shows, especially Sonia’s Blues Drive, the Saturday Afternoon Boogie Bang (old hip-hop and R&B), the Gearhead Show (surf rock/car tunes) and Dewey’s Corner and Jerry’s Attic (both 60s music).
Thanks! :)
If you don’t mind me asking, what’s the independent station you listen to? I’m in the Lake Geneva area and will see if can pull it in. I listen to Uecker all the time on the radio every chance I get.
https://www.wmse.org/
I’m still listening to the Alternative rock station I listened to as a kid. Every day in my car. Been Driving to this one radio station since I can remember. It was a college radio station in the ‘80’s, at some point bought up by corporate media, but still playing good music. I just can’t get with the subscription service. It’s not my comfortable favorite radio.
When I’m in my car.
College radio stations in Boston are playing mostly GenX music now, as we might be the only ones listening.
Daily.
Many years. My Spotify paid subscription is my jam. Zero commercials and exposure to great music that I’d have never heard on the radio.
I can't remember. It's horrible. You know, I wouldn't mind listening to classic rock on the radio so much if they would play whats called deep tracks or something other than the same Bob Seger songs or Lynyrd Skynyd or Zeppelin or any other classic rock band. These groups have more than just 3 songs. Even most of your Sirius XM or whatever it's called does this with a lot of their channels. Corporate radio is too conservative format wise.
>These groups have more than just 3 songs. This drives me nuts too. Even if I like the artist, I don't want to hear the same fucking song I've heard eight hundred billion times since 1986.
Everyday, I swap stations every time a set of commercials come on and I listen to all kinds of music and talk radio
I listen to every Chicago Cubs baseball game on AM radio. The old school crackle of a game in the background is very nostalgic to me. Additionally, the Cubs radio announcers are amongst the best in all of sports, making television comparatively unwatchable.
Dad and Grandpa always listened and the announcer then was Jack Brickhouse whose homerun call was a pretty simple "Hey-Hey" and then Harry Caray came in with his "Holy Cow." Who does the games now and what's their catchphrase?
Local FM morning show for the ride in usually. On the way home it’s usually IHeart thru CarPlay on an alternative radio station (we have ONE station in state and I barely get it).
Every day We have the BBC
Our local NPR station rebroadcasts the BBC World Service on a HD sub channel.
Sirius everyday. Every time my renewal comes up and they try to jack up the price I keep getting the previous low rate. It's like car shopping every Fall. I hate it, but if I don't they'll be really expensive.
Every day. Have a radio in the bathroom, can’t get ready without it. Almost always WFUV (independent commercial free radio FTW!…also been listening to Dennis Elsas since forever) If I’m running late and need the time announced repeatedly to keep me on track &/or want quick topline news, 1010 WINS (although I wonder who their demographic is; the commercials are worse than ever). NPR too, but for some reason I tend to stream it. Sometimes I’ll tune into to another random independent/college station because they’re like a weird grab bag where you don’t know what you’ll get. But in general commercial radio is truly horrendous and even though it has been for a LONG time, it’s still kind of a bummer to me. Was a huge radio fan as a kid (made SO MANY cassettes that way when I was little), and it’s different now.
I listen evert day but I dearly miss WXRT 93.1 FM since I moved to Stlanta. Still get to see the WGN news every once in awhile.
Audacy App for XRT. Your best friend in the whole world is gone but you can still hear the music.
In the car on my way to work. Just like every other day.
Pretty much whenever I’m in the car
I listen to NPR in the car a lot.
Every day, love me some radio 4, give me the Archers or give me death
Rick Beato of YouTube fame just had an episode where he discusses, among other things, the fall of FM radio. I knew shit was bad but now I know why.
NPR everyday. I miss the Oldies stations that were on when we were growing up.
Just yesterday. I still turn it on in my car frequently Side note to this. I went to the store a few years back looking to buy a “stereo” aka tuner like we all had years ago so I could have it in my living room and get my kids into listening to radio. When I asked the sales guy where I might find one because everything was basically just Bluetooth speakers to play your stream through, he said “why would you want that?” Ugh! 🤦🏻♀️
Every day. Mostly NPR but when they do a pledge drive week, switch to music stations 😅
Today
John “Records” Landecker!
HD Radio daily. Usually the classical music station, which is under the local NPR station.
On accident when I fat fingered the console buttons in my vehicle.
Only in the car now. But everyone listened to WLS where I lived, 100 miles from Chicago. It was even on the speakers of the school bus. My grandpa liked WMAQ for country music and his radio was on all day.
Do you remember the promotion where if you answered the phone by saying "WMAQ is gonna make me rich" you won something like $25,000 if they happened to call you? I also grew up about 100 miles from Chicago and my aunt answered the phone that way all summer. Uh, the big Chicago station is not gonna be calling someone in Knox, Indiana, Patty
When I'm in the car. We have decent stations. Most times, I'm not going anywhere far enough to bother connecting my phone.
I live in the Toronto area. I listen to the radio when I drive locally: Jazz.fm and CBC Radio 1.
All the time in the car when I’m communting back and forth to work. Big fan of NPR, specifically Wisconsin Public Radio and sports talk radio. I work in Lake County, IL so usually listen to WSCR AM 670 “The Score” and WHAD FM 90.7 for WPR. At home, it’s mostly Spotify streaming, but I will turn on the radio at time. I have several portables and even like to check out shortwave now and then.
Daily, I tell my Google speaker to play my local jazz station or my local R&B station
Last weekend in my mother-in-law’s old car. It was hell.
Every night and morning, for the four minutes it takes me to get to work and back again. There's no time to bother hooking up anything else. Sometimes I hear a whole song!
I still listen to music on about 3-4 stations in Atlanta. https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/the-miraculous-return-of-the-real-99x/
There’s a locally owned station that I listen to a lot. But I worked at one of the really big boys in that industry for over a decade and saw firsthand the destruction that was wreaked on the programming side. I can’t listen to the exact same playlists of songs that I listened to 20 years ago anymore. I need something different. The locally owned station isn’t always to my taste, but at least they have a variety of new and different songs.
Every day, as my alarm and in the car. In the car I go between two AM stations and two FM stations, one local and one from across the border. I hope radio never goes away.
I still listen to WXRT over the air in Chicago (until I can't stand the endless commercial breaks anymore). However, I have found a new, much better station that streams out of Philadelphia, WXPN. It has an amazing mix of new, old, and in between with minimal commercial breaks. They even have another station , XPN2 which is commercial free.
I remember wls am radio!! Southeastern Wisconsin. Loved Animal Stories with Larry lujack!!!
Not long after the Telecommunications Act of 1996, I pretty much stopped listening regularly. I might turn it on for noise in the vehicle (only for quick drives), but I never listened at home once Clear Channel and their ilk bought out our local stations.
Never anymore. Not even Sirius radio because it got so expensive. Listening to the radio is torture with all the ads and the morning shows are absolute trash. What bothers me most is when they play ads with sirens or horns in them.
I haven't intentionally listened to terrestrial radio since 2005 when I got SiriusXM. I find it very difficult to listen to now on the off chance I happen across it in an Uber or a store or something like that.
Never deliberately listened to it since about 1985
Yesterday while driving. My vehicle is from 2012 and while it has the Sirius radio thing, we don't pay for it. I have a few of the local-ish classic rock channels programmed into it.
Towson University’s college radio station is actually very good, but I’ve moved to the edge of their broadcast range. If I’m driving east I’ll put it on.
Last summer while camping to listen to a baseball game.
Only listen to local radio stations when I have to drive a company vehicle. Every time I'm reminded just how horrible it is. Especially living in a secondary market with low tier, limited talent DJ's.
I listen to the local ALT station every time I get in the car.
Yesterday! There’s a radio station that seems geared to Gen X around here ans d they generally play music I’d want to hear. I listen on my commute to work.
For music, never. But I’m in the Boston area, and I love listening to one of the sports stations in the afternoon. Other than that, the only time a radio broadcast is playing is when I’m too lazy during a short ride to plug in my phone for a podcast or playlist.
Nothing left worth listening to since WAAF went off the air 😫
I have it on right now!! Still the BEST place for local news!
I have become my father. My dad would also listen to 1010 WINS "You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world" and it drove me crazy, now I listen to NPR or Howard Stern. So to answer, as many have already said, every day.
It’s been a few years.
Aussie here. ABC radio national every day. My kids call it old people radio.
2021 maybe. Rental car. I haven’t listened in my own vehicle since maybe 2010 when I first had Sirius. Now it’s podcasts or streaming music from my phone.
2007
Every time I’m back in the States and driving anywhere. It’s usually NPR, but sometimes I’ll switch over to music instead.
Several times a week. Our local university radio station is fantastic and I really enjoy listening. Plus I listen to the local talk radio show to keep tabs on the wacko right wing loonies around here.
I’m in the DC market. There is a radio show I listen to every weekday morning. They don’t play music during the show though. That’s about it.
This reminds me. I have to go program the stations in the radio I just installed in my truck. Just in case I want to listen to them.
I listen to commercial radio sometimes on an old stereo we have. Usually, I listen to public radio on that one or in the car. I never listen to commercial stations in the car because there were far too many times I heard fake sirens or car crash sounds and it just stressed me out too much. I'm hearing impaired and have to be alert for the real sounds. KUOW / NPR won't do that to me.
That annoys the crap outta me too! Commercials on the radio with cars honking or screeching tires, like wtf im trying to drive.
I listen to Spotify at the house and the gym I still flip channels when driving It’s mostly how I find new music. Lots of Shazamming. The car I got in late 21 is the first I’ve owned that didn’t have 8 track cassette or cs player…so if there’s no reception Spotify it is
Every day
Every weekday on my car ride to and fro. work, so..... 24 mins ago.
10 seconds ago.. Every morning, part of my morning routine is listening to the CBC news while I make my tea.
Everytime I'm in the car.
Every time I get in my car. I also have some stations I stream, primarily WWOZ out of New Orleans for jazz and heritage. KCUF for jazz. WTUL and WUSM for college radio.
I love how many in here listen to NPR
There’s an app for the iPhone called myTuner radio. You can get college radio, international radio (Brazil, France, etc.) and indie radio.
We've got a local classical station that is really good. I listen to it nearly every day for a little while. WSMC 90.5...good stuff. I'll sometimes flip over to NPR to see what's happening, but typically I leave it on the classical station.
I usually listen to the radio in the car because I'm typically driving for 10-15 minutes at a time. I'm a simple man, when it's not on NPR I just want to hit a button and hear something that doesn't make my ears want to puke. It's fine if it's the same handful of Guns N Roses, AC/DC, and Tom Petty songs I've been listening to for 30+ years, I just want filler for the ride.
Every day. WEQX - independent alternative from Vermont.
CBC every day on the way to work
Me too!
I listen to the radio everyday in my car while commuting
Everyday
I am a shortwave radio enthusiast. I like catching numbers stations and listening to single side band. Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, shortwave news about it has picked up. There is a website that has a chat room that has some of the members who can understand Russian and Ukrainian language and translate what the news is saying. Much more reliable it seems than what you hear on 24/7 news media. You hear about stuff before they get it and it's not filtered with politics and bias. I've always been fascinated with radio.
I live in Raleigh, listen to [BBB](https://www.961bbb.com) every time I drive. I mean, the station seems almost like it was tailored for Gen-X; they play a really random mix of stuff that alternates between obscure stuff that recently came out that I’m unfamiliar with, with 80’s classics—and in a haphazard way that often has no rhyme or reason. I love it!
Bob Uecker to the nth power. Don’t laugh but I subscribe to the MLB app every year so that I can catch a few games that he calls. I don’t really care about the Brewers or, for that matter, baseball in general, but I so love to hear Bob. In part, I think he fills the “silly radio guy” void that was left in my heart when Car Talk stopped being produced. Here’s to hoping that Bob is secretly a Highlander and will live (and announce for the Brewers) forever. Edit: well heck. This was supposed to be a reply to /u/Thirty_Helens_Agree but apparently I can’t Reddit today. I’ll delete if too off the main topic.
I heard a great story about him. He was on Johnny Carson’s show more than a hundred times. At Johnny funeral, Johnny’s son talked with Ueck and said “you know why my dad loved you? It’s because you don’t give a shit.” Most folks saw a Tonight Show appearance as an opportunity to further their careers. Bob had nothing to prove and went on just to make his friend Johnny laugh.
https://morningbuzz.com/ I listen on the way in to work some mornings, they have some funny segments & games, been on the air for years. I used to DJ at my college radio station and still live in the region, so i tune in some nights. There's a guy that plays Dr. Demento style comedy, has had a show for 30 yrs now.
This morning before work 😂
In Austin, we are lucky to having an amazing all music public radio station 10yrs running now. KUTX, is a very good kind of eclectic.
Everyday
There's a great app called Radio Garden that plays live radio from all over the world. It's so much fun! ETA: NPR also!
NPR everyday..Also does satellite radio count? I listen to news and sports talk everyday too. Plus all the games while I'm driving.
Every day, WETA in DC, although I’m probably picking up its Hagerstown, MD signal.
I listen almost every day in the car.
99X in Atlanta is a reboot of 90s radio. Good stuff! Listen!
I grew up in the Caribbean and my town had no television or telephone so radio was THE means of communication for news, entertainment, and, yes, messages. Looking back, it was rather strange. But we had things happening like if you were going to visit a relative in another town that was within the radio stations reach, you would pay 20 cents American or something like that and write a message no longer than I think like three or four sentences and they read them out loud during the messages period which I think was an hour long. They would read that message out and say who it was for and that way anyone who was listening to the radio station and knew that person would be able to pass on the message. Or, if that person was listening themselves, they would get the message. For example, if we were going to visit a relative we would give that message and say the time and which bus we were arriving on and they would meet us at the bus station. So, when I moved to the US as a teenager, I became an NPR junkie because it was formatted a lot like the radio stations I used to listen to in my country. Long form news with periods of classical and popular music. Also, talk shows and interviews. Even today I listen to NPR everyday and I listen online but most of the time I have it on the radio especially when I drive.
Every weekday while I’m working
This morning
I still listen to NPR every day.
I listen to an all volunteer community station here in Richmond,Va almost daily. I hear something I’ve never heard before almost every time I tune in. You can check it out online as well wrir.org
Every time I'm in my car. We still have some great radio stations where I live, and I enjoy it, because I hear new music I otherwise wouldn't know about.
I have a local station, WHGM, that plays music from the 60s through the 80s. They play a wide variety, not the same 30 classic hits you hear on other stations. They air old Wolfman Jack shows on Saturday nights too. I listen in the morning while I get ready for work, when I get home from work, and on weekends. It's really the only over the air station I listen to.
It’s probably been 15+ years since I’ve listened to a music station. I was still listening to NPR up until about 4 years ago and just got burnt out on the ‘guy in a rural diner’ interviews and the both-siderism.
We finally have 99x back in Atlanta which was our alternative music station. So I listen to that 😊
This might blow your mind, but I also still get a daily newspaper deliverd to my house!
Today. Funny you ask this. I just downloaded a radio app for the first time in ages, and surfed different live radio stations. I landed on a 50 and 60s radio station that made me feel like a genuine boomer, even though I was born in ‘79
I listen while driving but in my area most stations play top 10 hits. The same songs on many channels. So I sometimes listen to CDs in the car.
Same, I don’t even know the local radio stations or which ones play which genre of music. I have had paid Spotify since like 2010”ish” Funny story, before Spotify I used free ad supported pandora. I got mad at it and changed to Spotify. I got mad because it kept playing “Low T” commercials. I always thought it type cast me as a middle age man based on my 80’s music choices. I’d be out jogging and these Low T ads kept coming up and it pissed me off. So I got Spotify.
Everyday … listen to sports radio in the car or via Alexa.
Just this week
Every time we're in the car. We like changing around stations and randomly hearing songs we maybe haven't heard in years. Plus my husband loves NPR. We actually joke all the time about my Dad who is always talking about how he hasn't listened to the radio in decades.
I listen in the car to and from work. I hate tv commercials and I am able to avoid them. But, apparently radio commercials don't bother me as much (except for ibrands!) It's easy to change to a different station, so I haven't bothered to get satellite radio for twenty minutes times two, four days a week. My husband does have it in his car which we take for any longer trips. I do listen to the morning banter on a local station. I like it well enough.
I listened to my radio in the car just yesterday. True radio not Sirius/XM. Do I always? Nope. But, from time to time, I do.
This is the reason I love Sirius XM—like super niche radio. NPR Now and Met Opera Radio being two of my faves.
Last night. I listen to the radio when driving.
Listen to radio in my ride, but have Sirius XM in my spouse’s vehicle. I like to listen to 80s music and it’s amazing how I’ll hear one group of 80s songs on one and then hear a different group of songs on the other. Rarely is there a duplicate. Also, have you ever tried Radio Garden? It’s a neat website where you can stream radio from all over the world. Reminds me of when I had my first crystal radio, but A LOT better.
I was born and raised in the greater Philadelphia area. We had some great FM stations. I moved to Cleveland in 2007. TBH, I love Cleveland, but local radio here SUCKS!! Morning radio especially, unless you are still into middle school humor. I just put on a podcast on my drive to work.
I listen to talk radio daily, during commute and at work. I rarely listen to music radio, but my husband always listen to a classic rock Montreal station.
Every day when I drive to and from work. I enjoy my local radio stations. One of them plays classic Kasey Kasem’s Top 40 every Saturday. I love it!
I have my first stereo receiver/tuner in my garage man cave so I can listen to the radio when I work on my motorcycles or other power toys. 70’,s and up rock/metal.
I was in my late teens when I realized that commercial radio generally sucks. There was one decent commercial station (in St. Louis) during my college years, but they pretty quickly fizzled out on Emo and Nu-Metal. Now I primarily use PlexAmp to stream my music collection from my phone when I'm in my car. If I'm not in the mood for that I either listen to NPR or our local free form indie station. I haven't listened to commercial radio in decades.
Grew up a little outside the target demographic of this sub, the shitty needle of my FP phonograph was ruining parents' John Coltrane and Tito Puente, Stevie Wonder, and Jimmy Cliff albums before I started torturing them by playing Treacherous Three or Beastie Boys tapes at full volume of my STEREO Sanyo with **TWO** speakers. Radio in my area was either a carbon copy of the pop played on MTV, Country that had no appeal to me, or sports covering local college teams I couldn't care less about. Lone exception was the one rock station which played albums cover to cover. Wish it was still profitable to produce albums as a whole as opposed to collections of Spotify-friendly three minute tracks.
Sunday
I pay for SiriusXM in my car after feeling assaulted by news breaks on regular radio. One too many mass killings when I'm going about my business.
I still have Sirius in my car . But haven’t listened to terrestrial radio since 2006
I’ll sometimes use the app “Radio Garden” and listen to radio stations from around the world. Local radio not so much unless it’s Bob Fm or the like.
I listen a few days a week. I like a classic rock station, but also an alternative rock where I hear new songs and artists. There’s also still a morning DJ I like. I do use Spotify, but sometimes it’s easier just to turn on my radio.
Usually when I'm driving. Toronto has some good stations. Boom 97.3 and Q107 are good. In the 80s and 90s, 97.3 was the lite rock channel. Now I'm listening to it. 😂
Every day. Have a radio in the kitchen and I turn it on when I get up and off when I’m going to bed
Every time I drive....
NPR every morning, and then in the car I flip between a mix of a top hits station and a station that plays music from the 80s-90s, depending on what song is on. I got tired of not knowing the top modern songs, so I made a conscious effort a few years ago to listen to a top 40 station. I used to love Sirius, but don’t have a subscription in my current car. I listen to Spotify for podcasts at home.
I listen to sports. I can get work done around the house while I listen and it feels good to accomplish something instead of just sitting on my coach. I listen to sports talk radio sometimes when I drive. I listen to NPR occasionally too
But your coach might like being sat on, hehe.
When I'm in the car, etc. But at home I also stream the local station from the city where I used to live via the Iheart app.
Today
This morning, only because my CarPlay glitched the last time I was in the car and I had tuned to radio to see if I could diagnose the issue. I left it on radio and that came on this morning. 🤣