Does anyone listen to the radio anymore?

I only listen to the radio in the car and primarily listen to a local station here in Memphis, TN WEVL 89.9 wevl.org

You can stream them online.

I encourage everyone to check them out.....and support if you enjoy

They have only 1 paid position. The rest of the staff are all volunteers, WEVL....we volunteer.

The genre of music changes ever 1-2 hours with the DJ

They hold a spring and fall pledge drive and raise about $75k on each one and then have random fundraisers throughtout the year.

Been on the air about 50 years now.....love them!

NPR does good work. Yes, it skews left, but it’s not that hard to mentally adjust for it.

It’s like the oven in your kitchen. If you want 350 degrees, you know from experience you have to turn the knob to 375. It doesn’t take a genius.

We are lucky here in the Spokane area to have 3 good FM stations, which I listen to at home and in the car. An NPR station that plays classical during the day, has great news, and multiple jazz, bluegrass, alternative, and blues programming. A college station that plays mostly jazz with some good blues programming and a private rock and roll station that plays an eclectic mix. I live out in the country and all of them come in clearly.

I'm listening to the radio as I type this.   What can I say, I grew up with it, listening to the growth of the FM stations in Chicago. I love WFMT plus I really like all the college stations at the bottom of the dial.  They're a great source of new music for me and stuff I missed along the way.  I purchase quite a bit of Avant guard music including  jazz and classical music besides what the younger generations are listening to.  I mean I would have not found Acid Mothers Temple, Ozric Tentacles, At The Mountains of Madness(Zorn), The Dip Tse Chok Ling Monastery, Prayer For Kala Rupa (anyone remember the movie "Altered States" ), Bowery Electric,  Gergiev's Scheherazade, and on and on recent purchases.  And B-4 I forget, note to self:  pickup Nick Caves latest recording, "Wild God".

I can't understand the attraction of listening to FM when we have Roon and all of the streaming services.  Is it nostalgia?  I an't imagine using to an FM station and trying to listen to it, full of commercials, low quality sound and not even related to the music that you really would like to hear.  Sometimes we just need to let old technology go, like the Sony Walkman.