What radio stations do you listen to?

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1. Pittsburgh’s Bob FM 96.9

2. The local public radio, Classic country station, Classical station

3. WMMR 93.3 Philadelphia

4. MPR

5. On the rare occasions I do, I like listening to the Tucson NPR station.

6. I haven’t really listened to the radio, on the regular, for ages. Sometimes I’ll use Radio Garden to go see what people are listening to in different places, but if I want to hear music, I use a streaming service, and there’s podcasts for non-musical stuff. News, I prefer to read anyway.

7. I haven’t listened to terrestrial radio in years, too many commercials, too small of playlists. I has satellite radio for almost 20 years then have been using Spotify.

   When I would listen to a radio station usually it would have been specific shows from college stations where they have more leeway to play songs that aren’t top 40.

   I haven’t done so in a while so I can’t suggest any specific shows these days, but most all stream their stations live.

8. SiriusXM Faction Punk.

9. These days, just Chirp, the Chicago Independent Radio Project. You can listen online, ad-free.

10. My local NPR

11. I stopped listening to radio years ago. I only ever listened to radio when in my car and that was eventually replaced by podcasts and audiobooks.

12. WSCA 106.1 Black Night Meditations every Friday night from 8-midnight.

    4 hrs of Black, Death, Speed, Thrash, Gothic, Doom, Shred, Power, Prog, Folk & Traditional Metal, with Dark Ambient, Dungeon Synth

13. I can’t remember the last time I actively turned on a radio and listened to it, but I remember I used to listen to 106.1 BLI all the time when I was a kid/teen. It was a generic top of the pop charts station. Wasn’t a fan of the radio shows they had though, I found the hosts of the morning show at the time so annoying (I think their names were Dana and Jeffery? I’d wake up to them talking when getting ready for school). I’d also sometimes listen to 100.3 Z100 which has the Elvis Duran Show (fairly well known, or at least used to be idk). I wasn’t a big fan of that show though either, I just wanted to hear music. It’s similar to BLI in that it’s the top pop hits, but it’s a much larger station that ranges a few states I’m pretty sure

    Idk if they’re still good/ok, but they’re fairly popular stations on Long Island (NY). You’d probably be able to stream them online, but idk if you’d be able to get it over actual radio since most channels will change even as you cross states

14. Tampa area – Q105 (80s/90s pop) and 98 Rock (Classic Rock)

15. I use to listen to the Arkansas State University radio station because one of my former coworkers worked for it. Also, I dig their folk music and classical music segments.

    I use to listen to the Mid-South NPR every day while I was driving to work then to my classes. But that was a while back and I probably haven’t intentionally listen to the radio in maybe a year.

16. College alt-rock stations (always the stuff to the left of the dial,) WNYC/NPR, BBC World Service (smart speaker.)

17. KEXP.ORG. It’s very eclectic and has everything anybody could ever want. It’s paid for by the public so there aren’t any annoying commercials.

18. My two favorites are local college stations:

    wruw.org

    wcsb.org

19. I haven’t listened to regular radio in a long time. Got satellite radio when I was 16 (2003) and had that for at least 10 years. Now it’s just podcasts and streaming music.

20. I mainly listen in the car, and it’s Great Classics 98.9, an FM station out of Carrollton, GA, since I live in the area. They play stuff from the 70s, 80s, and 90s and feature primarily local businesses for their commercials.

21. NPR and [WERS](https://wers.org/).

    WERS is a great college radio station out of Boston. I listed to the reggae show Rockers for decades but they cancelled it and that makes me sad, but these days you can get whatever music you want in the internets – and at the time, it was sort of hard to find new music – you literally just had to go to the record store and buy stuff to see if you liked it.

22. KEXP 90.3 FM (Seattle Center) and KBCS 91.3 FM (Bellevue College). I mostly listen in my car, but you can stream them online as well.

23. I just use my phone storage to listen to music. I don’t want to hear ads or people talking.

24. I suggest you poke around radio.garden. countless stations from across the spectrum and around the world.

25. I typically listen to Spotify, but if I’m traveling with someone else I’ll usually have my radio tuned to Peoria WPBG 93.3, aka “The Drive.”

26. I stopped listening to radio when they fired all the local DJ’s and the music selections were all dictated by a program manager (and then by an algorithm.)

27. “KFI 640AM” for Tim Conway Jr. the dude is a lot of fun. A lot of the rest of the station is quasi right wing stuff.

28. NPR

29. Look for a station called KDHX. The music is programmed by the DJs themselves and it’s commercial-free. There’s a great program on Mondays featuring music from Brazil, another one on Friday that seems like it is run by Venus Flytrap from WKRP, and all sorts of other various themes throughout the week

    There was some recent turmoil and a number of programs disappeared and it hasn’t quite been the same since but it’s still better than most other stations out there.

30. All local stations: 670 AM The Score for Cubs games, 93.1 FM (WXRT) for…I guess I’ll call it college/indie rock of yesterday and today, 98.7 FM (WFMT) for classical, Lite FM for a 20 minute period in December when they loop through the 6 Christmas songs they play

31. I usually listen to either NPR for talk radio or I’ll listen to some kind of country station. The big one where I’m at is Froggy. Otherwise I listen to the “hard rock” station TheX, which is never hard rock but they play a good bit of 90s grunge bands and some newer alternative stuff which is hit or miss

32. Salt lakes 100.7 Bob fm

33. I mostly just listen to my own playlists or Siriusxm or podcasts (or NPR).

34. WKNC 88.1 NC State’s local college station

35. Honestly, pretty much just NPR. Occasionally I’ll turn on the country or rock station if whatever on NPR is annoying.

36. My local NPR station: KPBS-FM 89.5 out of San Diego. They also broadcast as KQVO in Calexico and K206AC in La Jolla.

37. https://weta.org/fm – Local classical station

38. I have sirius XM in my car, so these are the names of the stations i listen to

    1st Wave

    Ozzy’s Boneyard

    Lithium

    Bob Marley Tuff Gong Radio

    Chill

    RTB (rock the bells)

    NBA Radio (this is where the radio is stuck 80% of the time)

39. > What radio stations do you listen to?

    I don’t really listen to regular radio these days… Haven’t for ages.

    When I’m puttering around in my car I’ve got Sirius. And I don’t typically listen to anything too crazy on there. ’80s and alternative, mostly.

    At home it’s typically something on Spotify.

40. My favorite way to explore radio stations:

    https://radio.garden/

41. I stopped listening after the local morning shows got cancelled.

42. I got an iPod in 2004 and basically stopped listening to the radio. Now turn on the local all-news station when I want to know why I’m sitting in traffic.

43. I’ve been listening to 93.5 KDAY and 94.7 The Wave since I was a baby

44. Rock 105.3. My commute is only 11 minutes. I tried audiobooks for a bit, but I can’t usually get through a whole chapter in that time, so it doesn’t really work for me. I’ve also got an old car that has a CD slot, but when it eventually dies and I get a new one, it’ll probably have satellite radio so I’ll drop AM/FM for good.

45. 93.1 WXRT Chicago

46. [WRUV](http://wruv.org/) 90.1, you can’t pick up the radio signal from the UK but they stream on the website I linked. This one prides itself on being legitimately alternative so songs will range from stuff you might know to just a recording of cave noises.

    [WITR](https://witr.rit.edu/) 89.7, another college radio and a personal favorite for my dad, you get a bit of variation between the different DJs and it’s way more mainstream than WRUV so you’re less likely to sit through a playlist of whale noises (yes that’s actually been played there). As far as I know this one also can be played from the website even though the signal probably barely gets out of New York.

    Brief interjection to mention that this made me realize a lot of the radio stations I listened to growing up were entirely local and not one of the kinda national iheartradio type stuff.

    Anyways [WFKL](https://fickle933.com/) 93.3 was what I had to listen to every day on the way to Sunday school and it just so happened that that time slot was *always* counting down that weeks top 40 from a given year in the 80s. Doesn’t look like they have an online music player but it’s also not that special of a radio station.

    Final one is [WPXY](https://www.audacy.com/98pxy) which back when I still listened to it just did current pop, and it looks like that’s still their thing. It can be played online but again, questionable if it’s worth it just because it’s pretty basic pop stuff that probably has a lot of overlap with pop stations in the UK.

47. [WSM out of Nashville](https://wsmradio.com/listen-live/) is “The Legend” of country music. You can listen to it on the internet in crystal clear sound, but hearing it on AM radio is like travelling back in time.

    [Radio Enciclopedia](https://www.radioenciclopedia.cu/audio-real/) from Havana, Cuba is the same experience for easy listening music. Their signal isn’t as strong but covers much of the Southeast at night.

    [WFMU](https://wfmu.org/), and their additional internet-only streams, is quite simply unlike any radio station anywhere ever. You never know what you’ll hear.

    [WMKV](https://tunein.com/radio/WMKV-893-s31071/) out of Cincinnati is great for jazz and nostalgia.