I do almost every night, because on WZUU here serving "Portage, Mattawan, and LAWTON (they say Lawton!) is the Alice Cooper Show! Where Alice DJ's! It's a syndicated show, I know, but-that's all WZUU plays is old music that I like.
I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. I find myself reading like I usta back when I was 13.
With music on!
http://youtu.be/8USz7gb2RGQ (http://youtu.be/8USz7gb2RGQ)
Yes- I'm old.
Sometimes when I'm driving with my mom or dad. I usually have it to the moldy oldy station, Spanish station, or the college's "WTF is this" station.
Yes. In the car. Sometimes when there's a game on that's not on TV. And I wake up to a clock radio.
Mostly I listen to sports talk, NPR, or the classical station. Rarely anything else.
Very rarely, cuz radio in the NY Metro area pretty much blows unless you're into top 40 pop or you speak Spanish. The two classic rock stations (Q-104 and WDHA/105.5 in northern New Jersey) play the same suspects over and over again. (wanna hear Led Zeppelin for the billionth time? Tune in either station and wait a few minutes).
I do most of my CD listening in the car to and from work. The only time I'll leave the radio on is if some sort of major news event is happening so I can stay on top of it.
Quote from: FatFreddysCat on August 09, 2019, 11:09:58 AM
Very rarely, cuz radio in the NY Metro area pretty much blows unless you're into top 40 pop or you speak Spanish. The two classic rock stations (Q-104 and WDHA/105.5 in northern New Jersey) play the same suspects over and over again. (wanna hear Led Zeppelin for the billionth time? Tune in either station and wait a few minutes).
I do most of my CD listening in the car to and from work. The only time I'll leave the radio on is if some sort of major news event is happening so I can stay on top of it.
I usta live in the Bronx. But last time was back in the early 80's.
I was born there!
Yes
mostly talk radio these days
the oldies stations keep playing the same crap over & over
Sometimes but not often compared to the days when radio was always on in my car. I can't imagine terrestrial radio is going to stick around when better options are everywhere. I used to like a local station that played vintage radio shows, but these days they're on YouTube anytime I want them, as is the music I like, and Sirius and Spectrum can give you exactly what you're wanting to hear, commercial-free all day and night.
Growing up my cousins' dad owned some radio stations (sold them to a big broadcast group in the 1990s) and not long ago he said something to the effect that while AM radio has a future, FM is going to become like shopping malls, a few will still thrive, most of the rest will struggle, many stations will fail.
I guess he knows what he's talking about, but I can't say so far I've noticed my FM dial being a wasteland.
Well- most radio IS a wasteland. I agree. I don't have a car.
I can't stand 'talk radio'. Loudmouths like Rush and Stern ain't my turn on.
I listen to the radio as back music when I'm relaxing. I hardly watch TV no more unless I want to sleep.
I can't see any future in AM radio. Maybe yer Uncle knows something I don't. Or the rest of planet Earth.
The thing with 'talk radio' is, to me,-if someone screams at you loud enough and long enough that the peanuts in your s**t is good eating- you will eat it. It's brainwashing bulls**t coming from idiots. I don't need morons on the radio or news to think for me. I got a brain- I can figure s**t out without all the mouths who want to pound propaganda into my head- from the left or right.
Not on my free will, but sometimes it is impossible to escape radio. Radio here in Germany sucks for the most part because they play the same songs over and over again (Phil Collins, Bryan Adams etc.). Makes you wonder what year it is.
When they announce (really hot) weather they sound like they have an orgasm. When the weather cools down they sound like they are crying. Very cringeworthy.
Here in Michigan they tend to play lotsa old Bob Segar s**t. You can't avoid Kid Rock either. Ugh.
So I got lucky finding WZUU. Except, yeah, beyond the Alice Cooper Show, I hear crap like the Sultans of Swing (which is on the radio right now).
My radios (home and car) are permanently tuned to sports talk radio.
I listen to NPR Sunday mornings... NYT station? They play classical and liturgical. In the car it's oldies and YES they play the same damned play list they were repeating 40 years ago...
only in my car while I'm driving
I used to listen to two local radio stations and then they both changed their formats and became too political, so, no.
I like NPR on Sundays, when they play bluegrass.
Back in the 70's, there was a AM station that played old radio shows from the 40's late at night. I had a transistor radio (remember those?) with an earplug speaker. I really enjoyed those old mystery shows.
Yeah, it's the only thing I got. The tape player the car came with ceased working and although I've been debating on installing a CD player, not sure it'd be worth it with my car...
So depending on my mood I'll listen to talk radio, the "80s and more" station, the oldies station or the rock station. Miss my old CD player though, I'd put in my CDs with like 150 or so mp3 tracks burned on it. Apparently though they forgot the "mounting" piece when they took it out of my old car, so it'd need a new mount in addition to the cost of installing it and stuff...
Might still do it some day, but I dunno...
Ye-es!
When I am in the car.
Normally, I listen to the local classical music station, except on Wednesdays, when the station broadcasts the city council meetings of a city east of where I live. Then, I normally change over to the nearest station the radio has to a classic rock station.