Do you still listen to a radio station in today's world?

If no,  where do you get your news, weather, and music from?

If yes, what do you listen for? What type of station do you prefer? And how long do you listen per day?

I ask because I use to be a DJ. People have predicted the death of radio before, but radio has always managed to reinvent itself and survive. So in today's internet oriented world, do you still have time for something as "old fashioned" as radio?

I unplugged the TV several years ago.  Now it's nothing but radio.  About half the time I listen to pre-1960 radio (eg Fibber, Gangbusters, Monitor) on MP3s.  During the day I generally tune to local AM stations, avoiding the national political yakkers.  I don't have enough spare blood pressure to get pointlessly riled up about things that I can't possibly affect.

Yes..Radio when I'm doing graphics. Why have TV on? News? I record the 10pm news..There are  always depressing news items on facebook...But all/all I am totally ignorant of what is happening...I'm happy that way..

at work, LBC and Classic FM. at home Radio 4 Extra and my collection of radio shows such as -

Old Harry's Game, the Goons Show, the Navy Lark, Revolting People, I'm sorry, I haven't a clue.....*

infact, all BBC radio is freely availible online via their website http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ regardless of country.

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*brilliant Sitcom based in Hell... worth a listen

Hmm, I didn't know bbc radio was online. Have to give it a listen.

I have never been a radio fan so use a CD system to play music while I work.  My wife however, has always been a radio fan and purchased a DAB radio soon after they came on the market.  More recently she has moved to an internet radio which can also do DAB but I think it is exclusively used for internet.  Whenever I hear it it is always tuned to some sixties music.

Wisconsin Public Radio in the car, which means not much.  Google news, check the weather on the local TV station site, don't have a TV working and don't want one.  I rip CDs to the computer, or that part of it that I want. Works for me.

Doric

Smooth Jazz radio here.

classic  rock  station  on  radio

Our local NPR Jazz station; you can listen, too, right here...

http://www.wicn.org/listen-live-online

I used to listen while I worked all the time, but I con't get that station at home so now I only listen a few minutes in the morning. I have a clock radio. If there's a some I like playing when it comes on, I'll listen to it before turning it off and getting up. I also will sometimes listen in the car. I used to listen to contemporary Chrsitian but like I said, that station doesn't come in too well at home so now everything is set for country.

Quote - Smooth Jazz radio here.

The college station where i learned to DJ was multi-formatted when i first worked there. They played rock in the morning until 6PM then about two hours of jazz, four more hours of rock and from Midnight to 6AM it used to play R&B/Soul. I was the midnight to 6AM jock during the summer and sometimes the morning jock would be late, so i had to do rock until somebody with WAYYY more rock knowledge than me came in. Then sometimes I'd be there in the late afternoon and the Jazz show jock wouldn't show up. Guess who had to play jazz? It's not that I don't like jazz, it's just that it's a mostly instrumental format, and the school where I went, NC State, the listeners didn't want to hear anyone singing, which I much prefer.

Quote - Do you still listen to a radio station in today's world?

If no,  where do you get your news, weather, and music from?

If yes, what do you listen for? What type of station do you prefer? And how long do you listen per day?

I ask because I use to be a DJ. People have predicted the death of radio before, but radio has always managed to reinvent itself and survive. So in today's internet oriented world, do you still have time for something as "old fashioned" as radio?

Nope. Haven't listened to radio in probably 10 years or more, unless i'm riding with someone who does, like my dad whose in his mid 60s and always tunes to AM stations, gods only know why. on those occasions i just tune it out. 

I hate commercials, on tv or radio, so I eliminate them at every opportunity possible. I also see no point in paying for satelite radio, even if i did want to afford it. i'd still have to put up with thie bs. 

I play CDs in my truck, most of which I burned myself from my vastly extensive mp3 library. I used to have an iPod that plugged directly into my stereo in the truck via usb, but my ex stepped on it once by accident (it fell in the floorboard) and it soon quit working. that was probably 5 yrs ago. didn't bother replacing it.  I can put up to 7 hours of music on one cd and I'm only in my truck maybe an hour a day at most. So I can go several days or more without ever having to hear the same song if I don't want to. 

News, online

Weather, from weather.com or from my cell phone. 

I rarely watch tv. i buy my favorite shows/movies on dvd so as to avoid commercials, or just watch them online.

Yeah, pretty much I don't see much of a future for radio, and I'm pretty sure cable/satelite tv isn't far behind. Roku/Netflix/hulu/letmewatchthisnow and a myriad of others like them rule the future.

~Shane

Do you mean, where they use to play the same top 20 every 4 houres? Where hosts are constantly annoying with faked laughter because everything is soooo funny? No I stopped listening to the radio in the 80s. Wait, there is jazz Radio I like to listen in the car.

I wouldn't count on it. First a lot of cable and sattelite companies are offering internet service these days, and television may just morph into internet instead of broadcast. Radio's saving grace has always been the automobile. It's a marriage made in heaven. And then there are the special broadcast services for the blind. Radio may be changing, but I don't really see it going anywhere soon.

Timberwolf,

What can I tell you? Most people actually like their DJs to act like that and their music to be repetitive. It's no accident.

Quote - Yeah, pretty much I don't see much of a future for radio, and I'm pretty sure cable/satelite tv isn't far behind. Roku/Netflix/hulu/letmewatchthisnow and a myriad of others like them rule the future.

 

~Shane

in the UK radio is still very healthy and stations are reporting listening figures are growing....

Weather I get from wunderground.com whether on my pc, tablet, phone, etc.

Music is either by mp3 or SiriusXM (when home or away). I'll also stream YouTube vids on my phone and send those to my car stereo via bluetooth if I want to hear a song that I don't have. No I don't watch the video if I'm driving. lol

News can suck it, but I generally hear about things through my hubby, or I'll see something on FB and go look it up to check it's accuracy.

As for what I listen to, a little bit of everything, but my main love is rock/metal/industrial/etc. On SiriusXM, I rarely leave Octane (channel 37), but if I do it's to the heavier stations, alternative, or 80s-90s stations (sometimes 60s-70s). I was born in '80, but my mom still had her record collection. <3

Talk radio, yes.

Music radio - only when I'm drving.

BBC Radio 4, in the mornings after the alarm.

I just got a DAB Radio/Alarm Clock so it will be more BBC 4 Extra from now on.

I like to listen to radio.

It's strictly a music thing though.  I won't listen to chat or news on the radio, I'm stricly an internet consumer when it comes to news because I prefer to know what's really going on instead of being spoonfed bullsh*t by the manipulative media.

So, I do like and listen to radio for music ... but ... I like tape better :woot:
I love the sound of tape (and the smell it gives off in the machine) - yummy!

Northern Illinois University has a great Classical station I listen to.   That's all I will bother with on the radio though.  Other than that I listen to metal or punk or folk on CDs.

Radio a must for long commutes.  Much prefer a Pop station over all talk, news and sports.  CD's would be second, but I rather not use my original purchases.  The originals are converted to FLAC format then burned to disk for CD play; this process maintains a wider range of frequencies normally compressed in MP3's.  

     I canceled my TV service years ago, though I have internet service via the cable.

     I'll listen to radio over the internet sometimes when I'm modeling, mapping, etc.  I usually listen to a station which plays unknown artists.

     I like several very different genres;  which I listen to depends on my mood at the time.

NPR and sports talk radio

KPOO.  Poor People's Radio.

www.kpoo.com

89.5 FM out of San Francisco, found on Tunein also, the world's greatest radio station.

Seriously!

As for local radio, NO. Internet Radio however we have our own station I dj at, which is usually what we have on. Sometimes when modelling out stuff I will pop in a Manson cd, for some reason I can really model to a paticular album by him, Mechanical Animals. News... hard to tell since most of it is opinionated brainwashing. But it is a wide internet and usually something decent shows up now and then. But few and far between. Canned the cable so tv is not an option for news or weather. Do however keep a look upon weather channel online, and have a weather radio.

So to answer your question in my form, I don't particularly have time for modern stations since they don't play anything remotely to my tastes. However, a radio station which did, but I am not living near anymore I wouldn't miss the shows if I could listen to them. But you take that out of the equation I would ratther watch paint dry. I did like morning shows, Lex And Terry outta Tampa was fun. Howard Stern sometimes if I was in mood for it.

I listen to a mixed bag, more often its classic rock or metal.  Unless it's classic metal, I'm more often listening to symphonic stuff made outside of the U.S.  Just generally don't like the music we make anymore.  There are exceptions, of course.  Radio.  Don't really have one except a wind-up for when the power's out.

TV... blah.  What TV I do watch is classic TV, mainly a station called Me-TV, much of it before my time (not too far before but a bit- The Rifleman, MASH, Bonanza, etc).  Current shows, that I catch up with from time to time, like Supernatural, I'd rather go to the station site and watch.  Despise commercials.  After 10 minutes of that, I'm done.

im forced to listen to peakfm at work :-( ;-( brain melting stuff  i like scott mills on radio 1 i have some good lols listening to that, but mostly have ipod on

The classic rock stations on Sirius/XM in the car, itunes everywhere else. Bias alert. Sirius/XM is a major customer.

BBC Radio 2 through DAB is on all day for my Cockatiel (He hates seagulls so it masks there sound) occasionally i put on internet radio through an Ipad to get a decent Jazz station (None in the UK)...........Steve