Do you still listen to radios?

I have a Tivoli radio that I love and often listen to classical music on NPR.  I also like some of the Saturday programming .

I also listen to sports on internet radio while playing online if it's a game I can't or choose not to watch.  This post was edited by Thriftymaid at March 17, 2019 10:49 AM MDT

I listen to the radio in the morning when I wake up until I leave for work.  I also listen to the radio in the car.

I bought a radio and headphones last year because the tech geek in the church said it picked up the sound from the mike. It did seem to work but I couldn't really be bothered with it. 

I'd like to hear what's on the radio nowadays but never get round to it...

 

Yes

yep
one in Bathroom
one in Truck
Got to have my tunes

I have one of those Bose radios in my office.

Triple M - it's a retro station. Classic rock. I also listen to the football when the MIGHTY Crows are playing and I can't watch for whatever reason, and Test cricket.

Yes. Regularly.

While reading the above, the radio on the shelf above me was playing a guitar-music piece by Steve Reich, performed by Pat Metheny.

My radio spends most of its time on BBC Radio Three or Four, very occasionally Radio Two.

I gave up on Radio One years ago, even though I was still mainly a pop and rock fan, when a new Controller (the channel's head manager) narrowed its once-wide range drastically to increasingly formulaic, decreasingly creative, charts and dance-club material.  

I don't listen to Radio Five but only because it is dedicated to competitive sports, in which I am not interested.

The Reich piece was played on Radio Three - which is far more eclectic than some think, apparently from their limiting their own experience of radios to the pop-music emitters in factories, cars and the ceiling of the Co-op.  (I couldn't stand working to that imposed, narrow-range, others'-taste all day long!) 

Classical music stations in my car and sometimes at home.

Oh five years ago my husband and I bought a Bose wave radio as pictured.  This post was edited by officegirl at March 31, 2019 11:56 AM MDT

I  can't understand the point the question is trying to make.

It can be read as implying one of two things.

Either the questioner is a radio listener feels beleaguered by those who imagine only the TV and Internet matter now... or is one of those critics, regarding listening to radio programmes as old-fashioned and pointless. I hope I am wrong, for the latter case is an insinuation far wide of the mark and patronising.

If memory serves me aright, the original question was about like listening to like radios like, not debating like, "like", like.


And to that question, yes, and daily; and usually in a discriminatory way. Not continuously though - my choice depends on interest, taste and mood on the day; but my radios spend most of their time tuned to the BBC channels, either:

   -  Radio Three (an intelligent, literate, and very friendly station, offering mainly music and music-related talks of all manner of genres and ages from Mediaeval to present-day, except rock and pop; plus some drama and discussions away from music)... OR

   - Radio Four (mainly speech: news & current affairs, comedy, drama and a very wide range of special-interest magazine programmes),

with rare forays into

   - Radio Two (I avoid its shallow blether-&-pop in the day-time. I don't object to the music so much as the blether. Sometimes I choose one or another of the station's more specialist and interesting music programmes in the evening).

I avoid Radio One - it narrowed its range drastically to just charts and dance-club material many years ago - the dance sounds even then descending to ISO9001 levels of spontaneity, variety and originality. Also Radio Five, a sports channel (i.e. mostly football), as I do not follow such sports.


Sometimes, I don't have the radio on at all. I can function without it.


It's interesting that previous contributors here have illustrated what I have often noticed elsewhere, that many people seem to think all radio stations now all transmit only blether-and-pop, aural "wallpaper". These are aimed at those who at best hear but do not listen, usually while driving or at work; yet are unable to do anything without it.

The commercial stations in Britain do recognise the hearers as their audience. Most of their output - hardly programmes - is not local but made in one or two small, central companies using play-lists satisfying the main advertisers, and broadcast with a smattering of local news and ads, added locally.  Of the few I've occasionally heard, Radio Ninesprings (Yeovil) is genuinely local but still just a bland pop station - really not much better than the interminable compilations emanating from the gents' toilets ceilings in motorway service areas.  

One BBC R4 presenter recently remarked that Wikipedia defines a radio "presenter" as one who introduces the records... he was not impressed, rightly so. The hearers don't explore, don't find that there are presenters who treat listeners as adults, and programmes and programme contents they might like. To be fair though, such exploring is hampered by most newspapers (in the UK) being too bloody-mindedly idle to list radio programmes by more than only title and time, if at all. I think the Radio Times is the only British listings magazine to do radio programmes, presenters and listeners justice, and even then with somewhat less coverage than it devotes to the TV.


So to answer the question: YES - but note its verb is listen.

Sure I do but on my computer.

Ya I listen to the local radio station a couple times a week on a portable radio - I also like having it around for power outages. Cheers!