So do you listen to the radio? Is it (still) a thing in your country? Do you listen to music programme, talk programme, brief news/traffic info/weather?
For example we usually have it on the background at work for music, but lots of (albeit older) people prefer spoken programme (live reports from some local event, interviews with people etc.).
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Only when driving… I prefer classical music channels, they also talk quite a lot, but there’s music as well.
I listen to current affairs and educational programming mainly on the World Service and the local public radio station in the background while at home. Many music radio stations exist but I don’t like to listen to them. The sound is too distorted, the compositions step onto one another without a breathing room except to play repetitive advertisements.
Yes, I work from home and listen to the radio for a large part of the day. Mostly music, with some news programmes, interviews etc.
I don’t, but my parents always have it on in the background during the day.
The one thing I don’t get at all is listening to a match on the radio. How anyone could enjoy that is beyond me! Was home in Ireland visiting my parents last year. We went on a road trip, and there was some big match on at the same time. My dad turned on the radio in the car to listen to it. Being in an enclosed space, in the back seat, speaker behind my head, super-fucking-excited radio commentator screaming like he’d been fed Red Bull and cocaine for a week meant I got out of the car with a severe migraine. Cannot understand why anyone would listen to it.
Rather prefer podcast with spoken entertainment free of the music. Regarding music most radio stations here play their music after lists where they play the same “bunch” of songs XX times a day on rotation. Mostly commercial music.. or hits from the past (elton john, dire straits, queen, etc). So if that music is not your “cup of tea”.. it’s quite nice to just have the spoken entertainment in a podcast etc.
Otherwise.. think much of the radio is outdated nowadays.. having someone telling you how much the clock is XX times a day.. or what the weather would be or are.. in the era of smartphones.. is like “museum”… Still remember back in the 80ies/90ies there were a phone number you could call an a female voice told you what the clock was… Miss Watch as she was called.. rates were higher than for a normal call.
Is it still a thing? Yeah. Getting less popular, but definitely still quite relevant, especially with older crowds, as an office background and in the car (quite useful for traffic news).
Do I listen to it? Only if I’m in my car and my phone battery is dead. I do however sometimes listen to the morning news program of a national radio channel as a podcast.
Never to the music, occasionally to the spoken programmer, but even then only when I don’t have any podcasts to listen to.
Not radio per se…
Instead I often listen to the re-runs on their website or as pods
Especially if its originally 4 hours long. The pod have all music abridged, so it is only 1½ hour of talking
I often listen to either game shows, morning shows, or podcast-ish shows. I don’t care much for the music, as Spotify’s radio feature has much better songs
Nope. Only ever heard it at work or when in someone else’s car. I really don’t get anything out of it.
Yes,usually in the car,I also listen to it on my phone on Thursday nights because a cool guy has a program.
But its overall not a bad experience I prefer it over the tv.
Practically only in the office where we managed to find a station playing diverse hits from the ’60s to ’90s that everyone could agree on (called Schwarzwaldradio). The one thing I cannot tolerate is the tired present era pop airing up and down seemingly 80% of all stations. Rarely I listen to a public radio “high culture” station called MDR Kultur at home airing mostly classical music, jazz, blues and singer-songwriter folk alongside political and social discussions, educational reports, book readings, interviews with artists and figures of culture and similar talk programming.
I work form home and have the hard rock stream of my local music station on when I am not in meetings.
It helps to block out the kids playing directly under my window and I get to hear the local news once an hour.
When I drive I listen to our national info/edu/classical channel Ö1. They tend to have good news and general info journals as well as good interviews with scientists from time to time. They also are add free so the most annoying it gets is the occassional opera aria.
I don’t, music streaming and podcasts have completely replaced radio in my life.
Occasionally when I’m driving. I like to listen to BBC World Service and when I switch to the national public radio station, it’s usually for the news. There are also a handful of shows that are issued as podcasts that I listen to occasionally.
Yes. I have the radio on most of the time, listening to music. I am swapping between Danish and Dutch radio stations.
It’s even a topic of discussion with my mother (72), which station plays the best music
Mid 20s here in the UK and I often listen to the radio. BBC Radio 6 music is my favourite, then Radio 2. I can’t stand radio adverts.
I used to until I moved to the Netherlands and everything is in Dutch obviously which I couldn’t understand. Admittedly I’d still listen to it from time to time, but then I’d just turn on podcasts.
I find that Radio programs I come across even back home are superficial and uninteresting sometimes. I miss the old days of listening to real thought provoking radio that can help pass by hours without noticing.
I don’t. The music I like is not the one played on the radio, and I hate the non-stop and boring ads of dietary supplements, so… No, I don’t listen to the radio.
I like listen to radio in the car.
At the workplace it plays in the background but I don’t really listen to it
Yeah I do, although usually only during my morning commute. I get to listen to some music and I get to hear the morning news, while I’m still half asleep on the train.
Directly the radio almost only in my car, but there is some spoken programs made by the public radio that I often listen as podcasts.
It’s still a thing for sure! I don’t particularly listen to the radio that much, only when I’m going somewhere by car with my parents, they always have it on. When I’m driving by myself, I’m just listening to my own playlists from Spotify.
I never liked the radio, I prefer choosing my own music/entertainment over someone doing it for me, but it’s definitely still a thing.
At work, yes. It is always on there. Also occasionally in the car and when visiting my 70+ parents (not always on, mostly on morning/weekends).
Sometimes I do listen to internet radio, but those are foreign genre stations, never Finnish.
In total actively very little on purpose. At work I mostly tune it out unless I catch something interesting (at most ~1 hour, mostly less).
I listen some radioshows afterwards in a podcast form with music cut out. Normal radio too when driving short distances.