Do you listen to live radio anymore?

[Frozen Canuck]

With all of the music streaming services available and the ability to listen to music without commercial or announcer interruption, do you still listen to your local radio station at all?

I do stream a local radio station from back home in Canada in the mornings as I can hear the news and weather for the area where my family lives and it gives me something to talk to my mom about. It also gives me my daily dose of "Can Con" (Canadian content music artists). My preference though, for the rest of the day, is to stream music without all of the interruptions. My husband hates listening to commercials and idle chit chat and can't understand who wants to listen to music that way when there are now better options.

 

[lynxstch]

I stream one of our live local radio stations in the mornings. I love the 2 guys who do the show, they make me laugh every morning and start my day out right. I put up with the commercials, and I love the idle chit chat!

 

[Moliphino]

I listen to the radio in the car all the time. I change the station if there are commercials or too much talking.

 

[willowsnn3]

Yes, I have 2 local & one not so local contemporary christian stations that I listen to in the car & as background at work. Only one has traffic reports & bits of local news but I love the chit chat & banter between the djs. Lot of feel good stories instead of the bad & sometimes a prayer or two during the day.

 

[Kitty 34]

When I'm in my car, I do.

 

[BroadwayHermione5]

Yes! Sometimes satellite radio is the same thing over and over again. And as a voice over artist I do like to listen to newer commercials to keep on top of things.

 

[ronandannette]

Yes, absolutely - for several hours every day. I’m not a music lover but I am a very auditory learner so I listen to an AM news/talk station that has local, provincial and national content. It keeps me up to date on happenings and the guest/expert interview format is extremely informative and often inspires further enquire into topics I wouldn’t otherwise have been aware of.

I also listen to it on actual radios - my bedroom clock radio (will be listening shortly as I get ready for work), my car radio and I have an ancient (1990’s) desk-top radio in my office.

 

[DeeBee3]

Yes, listen to my car radio every day. Once we start listening to Christmas music a lot, I will use my CDs or iHeart radio. Other than that, it's actual radio or my CDs.

 

[mrodgers]

I'm in 29 years of extreme noise at work. I went from having thousands invested in the car sound system to never listening to music because I want quiet when I'm not at work.

Music sounds terrible on factory radios in cars and I'm too old and have more important things to spend money on so I don't spend it on that any more.

On occasion I turn the radio on but seldom. When I'm with my girls, one of them will connect their phones and I have to listen to Taylor Swift, LOL. Actually, my older daughter listens to the same stuff I would listen to, I'm just with the younger now more often as I now drive her every weekend home and back to school.

At home I don't bother. I have tried many streaming services free and recently the kids connected me on their Spotify service with my phone and I find that unless you spend time specifically marking and/or downloading, it's extremely repetitive listening to streaming because it's all playlist collections. To play music you have to sit with your phone in your hand or just listen to the same short list of songs over and over again or spend time finding all these playlists.

 

[Dan Murphy]

We listen to WGN talk radio at home on 3 actual radios, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. All the time. I will sometimes listen to some music at home on Alexa or Sirius/XM.

In the car, I will also listen to WGN. In the car, I'll also listen to CNN or a half dozens music channels on Sirius/XM.

 

[georgina]

At home I listen online to my favorite radio station in the city where we used to live (WYEP 91.3 Pittsburgh!). It's a community supported public radio station (adult alternative) so few commercials, although there is sponsorship announcements sometimes and of course pledge drives. I like the variety of music from folk, bluegrass, soul, new artists you don't hear on pop stations. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, anyone?

I hate commercial stations with all the ads, in the car I listen to the songs I have stored on my phone. Absolutely can not stand talk radio!

 

[easyas123]

I listen to talk radio all day long in the office, except when they play the baseball games (yawn) or the football team press conferences, then I switch to Pandora or something on my SiriuXM ap. In my car I listed to a combo of satellite radio and the talk channel, depending on who/what is on.

 

[supernova]

I stream one of our live local radio stations in the mornings. I love the 2 guys who do the show, they make me laugh every morning and start my day out right. I put up with the commercials, and I love the idle chit chat!

The only radio I will listen to is solid talk radio. What is the show you enjoy? I'd love to search then out online and give the show a listen. Thanks!

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Occasionally in my car

 

[firefly_ris]

Sometimes yes. I usually just listen to my own music loaded on a USB stick in the car.

 

[amcnj]

I listen to local radio stations when in the car. At home also live, but really only for some sports broadcasts.

 

[Meriweather]

I only listen to the radio in the car. Usually when I ren errands or appointments. Always the same station. Christmas music now. Started the 3rd.
I like the people

 

[supernova]

There's really no reason to listen to commercial music stations at this point. I find it hilarious when people started posting that their local radio station began the switch to Christmas music and how excited they were. Christmas music streams online 365 days a year. How excited could you really be?

 

[AppleDumpling]

Mostly only in the car. I usually listen to an “oldies” station, LOL. We also still use a clock radio as an alarm.

 

[CdnCarrie]

yes in the car I do. I have an old car. No usb thingy to plug in my phone. There is a CD player but I have one Christmas CD lol.
So yes radio is it.
I actually prefer to hear talk than music. I'm not a big music person.