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Only in the work truck... unfortunately

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.

I love listening to CBC (the Canadian NPR). It makes me feel more connected to my community, keeping up to date with local news I would not otherwise have known.

Also university and coop radio stations are great for discovering new music.

Nope...I haven't turned a radio on in at least a decade. Can't stand all the commercials and so on. I have around 16K songs on a USB drive in my car, that's what I listen to.

Every day. The morning show wakes us up, there is radio in the car, and in my hobby room, while there is neither cellular nor wifi access, the radio still works.

I do, public service radio every day, all day.

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.

Yes! But usually only when I’m driving. It’s either NPR or a local alternative station out of TJ. The local station is one of the only places I have heard Social Distortion, MxPx, Green Day, and some new rock band. It’s pretty fucking great.

I have started carrying cds in my car again, too. I’ve found quite a few great albums for $1-3 at thrift stores (great for Blu-rays too) or ripping CDs I borrow from the library. I also have a small mp3 player loaded with a bunch of music I’ve ripped or downloaded.

And I have AppleMusic for anything else.

Hell yes I do. There's a great local rock station here.

I've got a good college radio station in the area. They don't just play the same songs on repeat but play a good mix of alternative rock. Awkward student DJs and minimal ads.

No.

My personal rule is that I do not consume any media where I have to see or hear adverts.

When I'm in someone else's car that's an exception and they can listen to whatever they want, it's their car. But if I'm driving? Absolutely not.

Yeah, every day. BBC 6 music is where it's at.

The local community college has(d?) a good rock station with no ads but I am just out of range of their transmitter since we moved so I have not been able to listen for the last couple years.

In the US, the HD stations also don't play as many or any ads, I don't know how they are funded but its pretty cool. Mostly deep cuts or out of vogue genres. There are a couple of cool local jazz, blues, oldies or others.

Everyday but through internet coz im an expat

There's 1 listener supported classical station and 1 listener supported news station, the rest are garbage constant ads or worse

Yes, I switch between a few OTA stations. Usually just on as background noise. There's a couple of NPR programs that I sometimes try to listen to.

Yes, but rarely, and only independent ad-free stations.

I listen to NPR or most of my driving I can get a tiny local station Cavern FM which plays obscure rock music from around the globe. You can listen online here. https://www.cavern.fm/

No, but my dog does. I put the radio on when I'm not home because the background noise helps her keep calm.

I listen to and from work. It's mostly for background noise and the local news.

Yeah, only when driving or playing with old radios. Or in my garage I leave it on.

Sadly radio reallllllly sucks now for the most part. Some late night DJs are cool and play interesting stuff but otherwise it's junk.

In the car. They don't steal my information. There are no pop-ups. There is no subscription. Yes, I have to listen to ads, but I they have to pay their workers somehow. Often its public radio which has no ads and some good programs.

Yes! There one locally owned station in particular that seems to be thriving. It has no blocks of ads and real DJs. They always seem to be playing new stuff, and they even host small concerts for local artists and guests. They also stream at their site, thesummit.fm

Between them and The Alternation, which is another locally owned station that plays alternative rock, everything else in the area is iHeart Radio blandness. You know the type. Constant ads, playing the same songs over and over, morning shows etc

Yup my too 5 stations to listen to in the UK and it depends on my mood and vibe.

• Classic FM (Classical music)
• BBC Radio 3 (Classical music)
• Planet Rock (Rock and Classic Rock)
• Absolute Rock (Rock and Classic Rock)
• BBC Radio 1 Extra (Rap and Urban)

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.

WWOZ and WMUH checking in. Sad day when NPR fucked over/ bought out another college great WLVR. Rest in peace Fritz.

AM news radio every morning.

Haven't listened to the radio in about 15 years.

Drive to work in the morning would piss me off. Stop the jibber jabber and play some music already!

No, I turned it off the day I bought my truck and its been off since. The only form of pure audio media I consume are podcasts. I rarely even listen to music.

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.

Jazz FM for the morning coffee, BBC 6 music when making dinner

I do radiogarden, all day, with a favourite junk pop station. I need the noise because my home office can be deafening sometimes.