Do you listen to radio?

[Velocity]

I've been bugged lately by a survey company calling me on the phone to get me to do a survey about my habits listening to the radio. I finally had to tell them to quit calling. I don't listen to radio much at all, certainly not enough to keep a journal of which stations and how often for a week. I used to listen to the radio when I was young--we always carried transistor radios around, but now I only turn it on in the car if I'm driving for an hour or more. Even then I usually either listen to my thoughts or to CDs.
Who listens to radio today? Does satellite radio make it worthwhile?

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I listen every day to a local station. I love easy listening.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Absolutely never. Don't have one, don't like having to listen to it when in someone's car or having a coffee out.

EDIT: do people still "have" radios?

 

[Tora Ziyal]

I sometimes listen to classical music on public radio in the car and at the gym. Rarely at home.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Only on the way to and from work.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

Only when I'm in the car. Especially when I need to check the traffic (here in NYC it's almost mandatory). Otherwise, I alternate between sports radio and classical. But once I'm out of the car ... if I want to listen to anything I don't already own, I fire up Pandora.

 

[urbandefault]

Arbitron?

Driving to work and on the job weekdays, I have a news/talk station on to keep up with what's going on. Oldies (60s-70s) on the way home. Weekends in the car it's oldies or classic country, maybe a classic rock station.

I have a ton of stuff on a Zune that I play when I'm working in the shop nights and weekends, from jazz to rockabilly to blues to country. Playing some Jimmie Vaughan now.

I like a lot of stuff; I don't really fit into one of those "target" demographics.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Very rarely. The last time I listened to the actual radio was in January 2013 during the Tasmanian bushfires.

I do listen to some radio podcasts mainly science related ones.

 

[auntiehill]

Usually only in the car; at home, I listen to my MP3 player.

 

[urbandefault]

I have to say that I love radio. I was obsessed with it from an early age and wanted to be a radio guy. One Christmas my parents gave us three kids little portable record players. I commandeered my brother's record player, and with two of them I would do my own radio show in my bedroom.

Once I discovered Monty Python I started reproducing sketches with a cheap microphone and two cassette recorders, with sound effects from a cassette I found at Radio Shack.

In high school I wrote and produced a comedy sketch called "Chamionship Boxing." I used equipment borrowed from the music department and did all the voices. It actually turned out pretty good. I only had one copy of the finished product and I don't know what happened to it.

Later, much later, I decided to try broadcasting school.

I was bored the entire time. Everything they were teaching I had already learned on my own. My dream of a career in radio was ruined, and it's probably for the best. By that time the industry had changed so much that if you weren't a "celebrity" you didn't stand a chance at making a decent living at it. I couldn't do talk, I wasn't good at "morning zoo." The things I was good at weren't in demand any more.

But hey. This thread isn't about me. It's about radio, something I love.

Continue.

 

[Sector 7]

I have 2 radio stations pre-set in my car: K-Love Christian radio and a country music station SOLELY for listening to the NASCAR races. I do not know who is currently popular on secular radio.

 

[MacLeod]

Only in the car.

 

[Taylirious]

What is this?

 

[Amaris]

Very rarely. I prefer the CDs I have in the car, or my music library at home on the PC. Radio just doesn't cut it anymore.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Only in the car.

I usually listen to a station that broadcasts classic rock, but sometimes I listen to classical or opera on public radio. When there is something politically relevant going on, I often listen to a station that broadcasts Parliament sessions and political commentaries (generally neutral or across the political spectrum).

 

[RJDiogenes]

I don't even have a radio at home anymore (except for my Medieval knight radio whose sword is a letter opener that I've had since 1972 and is just used as a decoration now, since he would only pick up AM even if he had a battery). In my car I have four presets-- two oldies stations, one Rock and one Easy Listening, and two modern stations, one Rock(ish) and one Easy Listening(ish). At home, I either listen to Pandora or the digital music stations on cable. I've occasionally thought about getting satellite radio, but I don't know that I would use it enough to justify the expense.

 

[StolenThunder]

All the time. There's a radio in the bathroom, the bedroom, the living room, the kitchen, the car.

About half of the podcasts I listen to are radio shows too.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Yes. Almost all the time.

 

[Pingfah]

Not at home, except the odd show, but Radio 2 is on all day at work.

 

[Echtzeit]

Only on the way to and from work.

This.