I listen to the radio in the car, when I am in it. My husband listens to wireless radio in his woodworking shop. Does that count?
I no longer listen however I still have about 5 special old AM 50s and 60s transistors that I kept since I have had them a long time. All my old shortwaves both commercial and homemade have been sold off. I never liked FM. I am guessing in my life I have had over 1000 radios counting transmitters. I decided to put that all behind me a few years ago. It was downsizing and guess what? I bought guitar-making tools and wood so now I need to downsize again and the economy is so bad my tools or guitars won't sell for a fair price, so my downsizing backfired on me. The older I get the less I want. I spent too many years listening to the radio and also as a DJ and engineer, so I guess it lost its appeal. It is much easier to listen to internet sources for music or talk. I can't stand music while driving or riding in a vehicle.
Love it! I have a neighbor who is annoying on so many levels to my neighbor to the north. But on one particular night when they were having a fire in their pit and a few family and friends, this guy pulls out a stereo(?) and started blasting music. My north neighbors were not loud, just talking and our houses are not on top of one another. So one of their group pulled out a FLUTE from the house and started playing. It was not complimentary music, and eventually obnoxia neighbor went in.
I thought I was the only one. I have never liked "noise", especially when I'm driving. I like to hear the engine sounds and traffic, etc. My husband says I have bionic ears because I can hear him opening a package of cookies from a block away.
I listen to talk radio in the morning ... it's on now. [WLW700] I really only get the one station for talk. The other local station [WKRC550] has such poor reception , I seldom bother trying. I listen on the radio in my stereo , although in my B/room I have an older cathedral style , but I seldom listen to at all. I also have a radio/CD player out in my shop. Yes I think radio is fading from popularity ... and not sure what the future of it is. I have read/heard the same is true of broadcast TV ?Sure as hell nothing on it worth watching !
During the day I have around 20 to 30 TV stations. After 12am everything is nothing but commercials, wall to wall commercials. Finally at 3am one or two early news shows come on but they skew the news so much it's like sitting in a re education class in North Korea or North Vietnam. I somehow manage to fall back asleep after I lay there and have the slow torture knowing there is nothing on until daylight worth watching. NO Radio here at all, my decoder I bought several years ago while I had no cable, it has one tuning section for radio but I think it had to be disabled because there is no menu item to scan for radio. I guess Radio would use the same antenna system as a TV, not sure.
No - have not owned radio or stero, dvd player,cable or cd player in years. Everything we need comes trhu streaming on th TV. However, we will problaly get a good radio when we move, we keep better track of weather and have something that can rely onbateries incase of an outage.
We still have LOTS of radio stations here, including AM. I think the AM is still around because of the distances involved here. I still use over-the-air TV as well. I have a radio in the shop and I use one in the greenhouses sometimes too. We used to listen to the radio when we sat on the patio in the evening during the summer, but last summer we used Amazon music instead. I always listen to the radio in the truck and usually in the car as well. I guess I could use podcasts and such, but radio is just easier. We originally couldn't get cable here. I don't know for sure if it is available now or not, but we do have DSL streaming and satellite connections for remote area since the Canadians put up satellites to service northern areas. Prior to that, we had to have one of those old huge dishes to get a satellite connection. I don't know if XM/Sirius work up here or not, but I know of no one who uses them. In much of the state, public radio supplied by the state government is the only radio we can get. Most of the state has no TV at all, but there are measures being taken to remedy that, at least in the larger villages.
Here's a coverage map: A 12 year old article says: Only weeks after the FCC approved plans to for Sirius XM to deploy terrestrial repeaters in Alaska and Hawaii, Sirius has proposed that 1,800-watt repeaters be used to extend coverage to Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau and Honolulu. In addition to the land-based repeaters, Sirius has asked the Commission to reposition satellites that could provide coverage for the two states. The FCC dismissed objections to the terrestrial repeaters raised by the Alaska Broadcasters Association. I don't think that repeater program ever got executed. The Sirius site only refers to internet streaming in Alaska and Hawaii.
I love Sirius. Not just for the music, but especially Howard Stern, who is live Monday-Wednesday 7am ET. Never miss it. If he's being disgusting I just go on the computer and start listening again a little later. I actually love him, he made me laugh hysterically 2 months after my husband died, when I hadn't even smiled for a long time. I'll never forget that I was driving and had to pull the car over to laugh, laugh, laugh. I was shocked that something made me laugh again. I even remember the skit. Superman as a mentally disabled adult. Crass? Yes. Funny, oh God YES. I was almost ashamed to be laughing at the subject, but so glad I was laughing again.
I used to listen to our local station. It had news, local interviews, puff pieces...Now it is all politics. Except for Saturday mornings when they play POLKA pieces for the old folks. So I don't listen anymore. I have a western station on when driving.