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I love radio. My gosh I love radio. Talk radio… AM radio in particular, and NPR. Conservative, liberal, or neither, or sports talk even… I'll listen to anyone or anything that can sustain a good argument, good conversation, a good story… anything.  Though my political leanings are to the right, I've had several "driveway moments" listening to "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross.  I love it all.

Fortunately, I have a job now that I love enough and sustains my interest enough to not make me want to listen to radio all the time.

I love music too, but I only rarely listen to music on the radio. A good classical piece maybe (classical music radio is so stagnant… always the same old stuff), or good jazz of any stripe (hard to find), or some classic rock.

Although I do listen to silly 80s music on the iTunes radio when I'm working on my finances (Quicken).

Heh, I suppose that satellite radio is kinda like cable TV.  Sure, you can watch broadcast TV, but cable (and satellite) TV just has so much more...  for a price.

TheConfuzed1 wrote:

jeff-o wrote:

See what you've done?  Now I signed up for Last.fm.  As if I didn't have enough music I need to buy already...

Don't forget to join the MAF group. 

I already did...  *sigh*

I start with NPR. When that is not on, I press the buttons from right to left until I find something with no commercials, and if I hit 7/7 commercials I shut off the radio (which is pretty regular, damn commercials) or use the iPod for the remainder of my trip.
Commercials are so bad here, I used to hear 2 songs then 3-5 minutes of commercials.
And TV commercials! OMFG! If discovery and history channel were broadcast, I'd cancel cable. Were it not for my wife, I would have anyways.

Ad me to the camp of not paying for xm/sirius radio. I wouldn't use it.
(+1npr, +2 iPod, +7 local station presets for 10 total)

I bought XM and now I never listen to regular radio, besides the odd JACK FM binge.

Watauga_River wrote:

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I would also love listening to a broadcast edition of Al Franken's "Air American" talk radio show
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You can download the program via the Air America site or get them via iTunes--look for "The Al Franken Show - Air America Radio" which has the full program (the other "The Al Franken Show" only has segments).

justine wrote:

decker wrote:

volk wrote:

What bugs you the most about the current state of radio?

Clear Channel

I couldn't agree more.

ironhawk wrote:

Ditto.

Me Four

bratboy wrote:

I generally listen to NPR

Again, I concur. I generally listen to NPR when I actually use the tuner on my system.

I've always been curious as to who listens to this crap that is supposedly "popular."  I guess I'm just missing something.

JacKTHELioN wrote:

I used to listen to radio all the time.  My favorite station was a rock/alternative station that had a great assortment of music.  They played music ranging from the early 80's to the present.  They had a great morning show that was funny, but played lots of music.  I could wake up in the morning hear a few jokes and plenty of music, not just incessant babbling.  They were constantly reminding me of songs I hadn't heard forever as well as playing lots of my favorites.  The variety was such that the new "popular" songs probably only got played a few times a day.  To top it all off every Friday they had a show at 9:00 pm called the "really new music show" where all new music would be played and squared off against one another.  Listeners could then call in and vote on the new music that they liked, thus only music that listeners liked would be added to the playlist.

However one day some genius decided to kill that show, then the morning djs left and were replaced with a lot of chit chat, soon they were adding lots of "popular" music.  Slowly the station died and then became a classic rock station which is decent but just not the same.  I must have listened to that station for about 2 years before it became a broken record with commercials and pop rock.  Ever since then I haven't been able to find a radio station I can listen to for more then one song without changing the channel it seems like.  So it iTunes and cds for me these days.  I loved radio a few years ago, well that one station , but not so much anymore.

Same here, only the switch was to new country music, and the oldies station plays 13 songs over and over all day long.

Now I listen to the music stations through Dishnetwork (their Blues and Acoustic Crossroads channels are especially good) and there is no talking at all. I don't care for Sirius, but I'm going to get XM soon.

benightedbastard wrote:

This is the sole reason I regularly listen to radio. The music scene in this country would be all the poorer without it.

Right now they are counting down this. I look forward to it every year.

That is a really good station, but they talk funny.

Living in the Boston area, I can actually get some decent radio. There are half a dozen really solid radio stations that play all kinds of music, that is usually quite good, no matter what the style. I also listen to a lot of NPR (on Boston University's station). Other than that, it's pretty much wasteland out there...

FM radio is dead, and corporations like Clear Channel killed it.

It's all formulaic cookie-cutter lowest common denominator crap.

agedgruel wrote:

FM radio is dead, and corporations like Clear Channel killed it.

It's all formulaic cookie-cutter lowest common denominator crap.

FM radio is not dead.