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Yes, but just in my 2004 truck with a broken CD player. so it's my only option for entertainment.

yes but mostly in the car. It would be kinda cool for the public tv station to broadcast the public radio staing on a sub channel. like .6 with some photo rotation or something.

My car radio is tuned to the 80s/90s station. When I start my car if a song is playing, I'll listen. If an ad comes on, I'll mute it, and usually forget to unmute it again. Sometimes I hear two or three songs in a row before an ad. Sometimes I remember to unmute it, and maybe hear another song.

I could make an effort to have music in the car, but I don't care that much about it. I'm okay with silence.

Where I live there is exactly one good radio station and I listen to it every day.

Almost every morning when I drive to work.

I used to listen to the CBC every day but switched to podcasts years ago because the CBC turned to utter lame shit, more worried about their budget than actual journalism.

AM radio at the top of the hour for news, and only when I'm in my car. My sprit animal is old man.

Npr classic station for commutes and house cleaning.

If I am in the car and its a long drive, I usually play music off my phone. But if its a shorter drive or I'm not feeling the music, its my local NPR station, always.

Really enjoy WXRV 95.9 The River Boston. You can stream from a number of sources.

Yes, often. Between being in the car a lot since RTO mandates and being alone in the house a lot and needing to have some noise to help me focus on the task at hand, the radio is on a lot.

I have the advantage of a great, local, non-profit radio station with real, local DJs that just talk normal. They play an abundance of local and emerging artists alongside classic artists. Since it's non-profit, there are no commercials other than a "sponsored by" message from time to time.

I listen to NPR everyday. I listen to college radio stations where young people awkwardly talk about young people topics and the music they play stretches my tastes. Radio is human and alive. Where ever you are, acquire a radio and scan with your little fingers and listen with your ears.

I haven't gone out of my way to listen to the radio or watch TV for about 8ish years.

Not for about 2 years, and it was only because I was in a carpool situation at my old job so local radio stopped any potential bitching.

Just whichever NPR affiliate comes in clearest on a drive.

Every once in a while when I'm bored. I grew up with an old portable radio and then an ipod nano 6 that had a radio, whenever I got tired of the music I'd just open the radio app and listen for a few hours.

There's a lot of music in my country that I don't listen to often but every once in a while I get the urge.

It's also very nostalgic, listening to someone slice talk and play songs they want to play, with timed segments instead of an algorithm , listening to the stations fade when you get too far like on childhood road trips.

Haha fuck no! Never! Once I hear static I'm fucking livid. Static can suck it. Long live the aux cord!!

Try , https://radio.garden/ its free music for everbody from around the world

Rarely. And I'm a ham.

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.

No, not in years. I don’t even know whether the one in my car works. Radio is crappy music, too much talking, constant ads: just not worth it

Streaming is like you want radio to be: select a genre or band and it just keeps playing

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’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 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…

i use internet radio all the time

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.

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.

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!

I have found almost all radio status near me play a mix of 12 songs and ads. Tuning in to any station was likely to result in ads and not music.

My radio is tuned to static so I can get into my car without being forced into hearing an ad while my Bluetooth connects and I can start playing a book.

Internet radio, all the time. It often just streams in the background on a Yamaha internet connected speaker.

I stream my local college radio station while I work. There's charm in hearing the student DJs kind of stumble through everything as they play a wide assortment of music.

I still listen to FM radio and, if you'll please pardon me tooting my own horn, I also help make some of it as part of a long-running weekly talk show. (I've been off the air for the past couple weeks, but I'm back next week.)

I was a listener to the station and the program for a long time before I joined up. I still listen to radio often, and the medium continues to mean a great deal to me.

nope. Even when i drive, I listen to music on my phone. Haven't listened to the radio in....... over a decade.

I drive a truck for work; the radio is absolutely a lifeline for me. Usually just local weather/traffic updates for whatever city I'm passing through, maybe the news if I stumble upon an NPR station in time for All Things Considered. I stick to my music/audiobooks all other times though.

Unless I'm passing through home. Listening to my hometown stations helps me get out of "work mode" at the end of my rotation.

In my car, yes.

I switched from Spotify to Navidrome+local radio. When I'm in the car, it's been 100% radio recently.

I actually like a lot of the music on my local radio stations. Yes, it's 10 songs on a loop, but they gradually change out the 10 songs. So 6 months from now it's slightly different 10 songs. I also get to spend more time with each song, which lets me learn the lyrics or notice different parts of the song better.

Yes, there are ads and talking, but it's not all bad. I like the ads for local businesses, restaurants, or events. The talking gets annoying sometimes, but most of the time it's fine or, dare I say, even enjoyable. When the ads/talking gets too much, I just change the station. There are like 4-5 stations I cycle through. If they're all annoying, then I just turn the radio down for a minute.

I also discover new songs from the radio that later I add to Navidrome.

Overall, pretty happy not paying for Spotify and not having to use my phone.

Only in the work truck... unfortunately

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.

Where I live (The North of Scotland), there's really only about 6 FM radio stations. I tend to stick to the BBC, and alternate between Radio 4 (mostly grown up, politics/current affairs and some plays/comedy), Radio Scotland (regional news and 'Get it On', a music request show with a daily theme), Radio 2 (lightweight entertainment and phone-ins aimed at a middle age demographic) and that's pretty much it. I also listen to Radio X on my Alexa, but it's basically a 90s indie playlist with adverts, so not sure that counts.