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.
I use radio.garden every day. When I work I like listening to trance and EDM and there’s no better stations to listen to that stuff than random ones in Germany or Belgium.
I also like listening to Post-Hardcore music and Russian stations have that stuff in spades. really quality stuff even from bands I haven’t heard in years.
There’s one radio station near me that’s halfway decent to listen to every now and again but the host that’s normally on when I’m driving just plays the same 5-7 songs on loop most days.
Also the adverts are insane, they’ll maybe get through 2 songs before going to 10 mins of ads then come back for one song and go into some radio competition before going back to ads again.
nope. Even when i drive, I listen to music on my phone. Haven’t listened to the radio in… over a decade.
I don’t miss the static noise. Radio died for me the second mp3 devices became affordable like cd players, md players, the first ipod etc.
Occasionally I’ll put on the radio either in the car or at home, but it’s not very common these days.
My boyfriend listens to the radio in the car and he regularly finds new music that way.Everyday but through internet coz im an expat
No.
I was an NPR supporter for years but now I find them to be more in line with being a voice for corporate Democrats and the status-quo.
The rest of the radio is a wash.
Given my work as a dev I’ve pretty much always got BBC Sounds on in the background while I’m working. Mainly Radio4 but also Radio6 for music and sometimes sports on Radio5 (Australian Open tennis is a personal favourite for cold winter mornings.)
lol. NO.
not since Corus bought the last remaining real Rock station here… they turned it into ‘top 40 slop’
I went Spotify, but honestly… that’s fine too. I use VLC on my phone, and in the car.
No, but my dog does. I put the radio on when I’m not home because the background noise helps her keep calm.
Just make sure there’s no news though
FM radio never, web radio often, I even made made a FOSS html web radio where you can search and play any web radio station worldwide. holi
Not really, I only listen to the radio in the car but I barely drive since I started to take the bus.
I have a handful of stations from places I used to live but can no longer reach the FM signals so I listen to their online streams. They have human DJs, which is kinda like having an algorithm but no AI.
Jazz FM for the morning coffee, BBC 6 music when making dinner
Yes, but rarely, and only independent ad-free stations.
Wait you won’t even accept ads on the radio?
Like how you expect to fund a radio station without ads?
NPR
Yeah we have BBC in the UK which I assume is the same as NPR (man I hate that I know so may American terms 😂) , but I want a bit of variety as Classic FM plays more popular songs more often and happy to hear ads to support them although the ads are a bit more high brow on classic FM than say Planet Rock.
Local classical station only runs the ads stuck to the NPR news segments. If you run a good station, people in the community will donate to you. Does mean you get a couple weeks out of the year where they do a lot of begging.
If you can stream BBC Radio 3 (UK) that’s classical music with no ads.
I like the local one and I like using my radio. Its like 1 minute of ad over the course of a day.
Taxes.
So then you what? Have one radio station in the country? Or do you want to tax more and more to fund all these new stations.
Weird hill to die on and I’m confused honestly.
You’e never heard of CBC or BBC? Weird flex to be this if orange of the world outside your own sorry excuse of a country.
Why so aggressive dude.
Obviously I’ve heard of the BBC it’s from my country lol. It would be a shit world if all I had was the BBC stations.
Mostly no. Currently the only time I put it on is when I’m away from the computer for a length of time doing something quiet.
And I’d probably not even do so then if I had a tablet or smartphone to cue something up from the Internet instead.
(I’m basically stuck in the '90s here. Largely by choice, but money is a factor.)
