Do you listen to radio, if so what do you listen to? See detail?

I love to listen to talk radio. I used to listen to Don and Mike everyday while I was waiting for the kids to get out of school, but they aren’t on any more. I listen to Kid Kraddick in the morning or Bob and Tom. I also like to listen to music. Classic Rock mostly.

internet radio – NPR

I really don’t listen to the radio much outside of my car. In the car, I listen to classical, R&B/rap, and rock. That corresponds to 102.1 KDFC, WILD 94.9, and LIVE 105.3, common Bay Area stations that my friends also listen to with the exception of the classical one. :P

I don’t seem to listen to talk radio, although I did have NPR on the other day for fun. I’d just rather hear music.

I like NPR for news and weekend entertainment.

For background music while I work I like my local classical station WFMT

In the car I like the local college music station WLUW

Bob and Tom, Free Beer and Hot Wings, rock and NPR

Okay, so when you hear a song that you like, and you missed the ID, what are your options of finding out what it was? other than calling the station immediately, or writing the station, I mean

Also do you use short wave radio as an alternative to using the internet to catch what you don’t want to miss when you are too far out of town?

Mainly I listen to the local classical music station and Public Radio. Sometimes rock when I’m in the mood. I also occasionally tune in to the Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage talk radio shows, just to acquaint myself with what the ultra-right is vomiting out. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a guy so filled with hate and rage as Savage. It takes a lot of Mozart to calm me down after listening to him for 5 minutes.

@flo Okay, so when you hear a song that you like, and you missed the ID, what are your options of finding out what it was?

The iPod Nano lets you tag a song on FM, for later purchase via iTunes.

@flo In the car and at home I listen to 94.5 FM, a Perth, Western Australia radio station (mix.com.au) but otherwise it’s Internet radio, namely, wumb.org, folkalley.com both folk/acoustic stations, with a very relaxed definition of folk. Wumb.org is also in the NPR stable of stations. Also I listen to beatlesradio.com for all Beatles-related music.

I love talk radio, I don’t listen to music unless there are other people around.

I’m a SIRIUS/XM guy, so I record the Howard Stern show at night and listen to it the next day at work.

In between time I listen to various SIRIUS channels:

The ’60s on 6 Hits from the 1960s
The ’70s on 7 Hits from the 1970s
Classic Vinyl Classic rock from the 1960s and 1970s
Classic Rewind Classic rock from the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s
Soul Town Classic Soul

I used to enjoy listening to local talk, but listening to the same unresolved issues and complaints over the years got to be a bit much. Then after Howard went over to SIRIUS, the local market went crazy and formats all over the spectrum started shifting until local radio became unlistenable.

I’ll drop in on The Bay occasionally, or catch a bit of local news, but otherwise I prefer the commercial free content of satellite radio.

The only time I listen to “real” radio is in the car. I keep it on NPR since I generally get frustrated with the music on other stations. Though in my defense I always get excited when I happen to catch Henry Rollins’ show. I swear, he’s the only one I’ve ever heard play the Birthday Party or Big Black on the radio. Right now the only internet radio I listen to is lastfm.

The rest is podcasts. TYT dominates that field with the sheer volume of their content, though Olberman wins on Friday for his James Thurber readings. Then there’s This American Life, of course, and Real Time with Bill Maher.

Here in England, the BBC produces a wide range of ad-free radio stations, each focusing on their own little niche. All the competing commercial stations over here tend to sound amateur by comparison.
BBC Radio 3 is my particular favourite, they focus on a very diverse range of full Classical works.
Thanks to internet radio I recently discovered Chicago’s WFMT, which along with the Beatles’ radio stations, provides me with a little more choice these days.

The only radio I listen to anymore is Howard Stern.

I have many of you to respond to, thank you, but in the meantime, did you happen to listen to the talk show host, (it could have been on Coast to Coast) on night July 5th, or 6th. It may have been a repeat. He was OMG!!!!!!!!!ing about what a supposedly earth shattering thing a leutenant colonel or something like that revealed a few days earlier. The callers the same thing OMG!!!!!!ing. Have you heard it or about it?

@flo More info needed. What was the subject? What was the title of the show, or the name of the show? etc. Was it available as an Internet stream through NPR or similar? It’s always possible that those of us who didn’t hear it may be able to listen to a recording and then comment.

@Andreas that is just it, I didn’t get the story. That is what I am trying to find out. It was in passing that I heard it. I went to the website, they might have a podast but I decided to see if someone else in Fluther has heard it already. I wanted to make sure it is not some mambo jumbo subject (an interview with someone who claims to be a vampire). before I waste my time looking for it.

@jaytkay thank you. As alternative to ipod Nano, the itunes, what can people use? I mean people all over the world who don’t have access to those things.

@flo OK, then. I can’t help. I’ll leave it the rest of the Flutherites.

Last night there was a guest who wrote a book that says that in order to go to heaven you don’t need to be good at all, you just need to have a relashinship to Jesus. You can be angelic and if you don’t have a relashinship with Jesus, (as long as you are of age) you go to hell. I don’t understand how the talkshow host did not ask him “What if the people who live in regions of the world where there is no such thing as Chritianity?” Or did he ask him, and I missed it?

@flo, That guy was just spewing BS and has no idea of what he is talking about. It is best just to ignore him.

@reijinni when people are ignored they continue to spew. I think it is like the con artists that take people to the cleaners. I am sure people wouldn’t say ignore Maidoff, right? You don’t need to be good is a very harmful thing to preach.