I found a very old small transistor radio when cleaning out my garage today. I put in some new batteries, turned it on, and put on shelf while I kept cleaning garage.
It was fun not having to worry about streaming or internet connection or anything. I just keep the damn thing on 24 hours a day now while turned to a low volume. Gives some good “old-time gas station in middle of nowhere” vibes.
Personally I can’t stand the ads or the endless top-40 stations. The overwhelming majority of stations are owned by Clearchannel and they just play the same shit everywhere.
That said, sometimes smaller colleges have a radio station that is run by students. That tends to at least have variety.
Yep, that’s exactly why I had to fiddle around until I found my local community college station. Great variety and still have human DJ’s live. Hell, I’m damn near tempted to actually take some college courses here so I can maybe get a chance to be a radio DJ at the station!
Good opportunity to drop a mention to my fave station, Resonance FM: https://www.resonancefm.com/ For those tired of the same old thing every couple of hours.
There are also some great internet stations like NTS and Intergalactic FM
Really digging NTS! I happened to tune in during the “London producer & DJ Leila Samir presents an hour every month.” segment and it was some lovely 30s and 40s music. Thanks for the rec! I’ll have to check out Intergalactic FM too.
EDIT: Links added.
Thank you! I’ll check it out.
I wouldn’t have a problem with listening to FM radio if they actually played music and I didn’t just hear commercials the entire 45-60 minute drive.
The only stations that exist where I am are all owned by ClearChannel and it’s pretty much all ads all the time, broken up by the occasional song and not the other way around like it used to be.
I wouldn’t have a problem with listening to FM radio if they actually played music and I didn’t just hear commercials the entire 45-60 minute drive.
Yep, that’s what turned me off of radio in the first place. But luckily I have a decent college radio station that I can pick up now.
Radio is great. Local radio rarely has the kind of political talk I prefer. It’s either podcasts or web-radio for me in this direction. I still love to have the radio on anyhow.
I still listen to the radio whenever in the car.
Sorry, it’s just because I’m old, but it’s blowing my mind that there are people who really haven’t discovered the radio.
I’m definitely old enough to remember radio, but I’ve been streaming for many years so I could cater to my tastes. My local college radio station seems to play just about every single style of music out there.
Hmmm, strategic self presentation. This is all a little too Norman Rockwell Americana for me.
I’m not sure what that means.
I think you’re a sock puppet trying really hard not to look like a sock puppet.
No, you’re a towel.
? I think you are in the wrong community, maybe? I posted about finding a radio while cleaning my garage. Didn’t talk about socks at all. I’m not sure what you are talking about.
I think its about that movie Pinocchio where the puppet comes alive or something
I still have no idea what it has to do with me or this post.
Pinocchio is a very famous story that is frequently referenced. The evergreen themes lend it a near universal applicability.
Cool. Still not seeing how that has anything to do with my post
