Does anyone listen to the radio anymore?


My tuner has been collecting dust the last few years. Got me thinking, how many  audiophiles even listen to the radio anymore when there are so many other options available?

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Predominately listen to the air-waves radio in the car to our local college run public radio station. At home, I stream several radio stations both local and abroad. I also often stream Radio Paradise when I want someone else to take the reins on music selections. But I haven't used a tuner in ages at home, despite having one. 

@lubachl The local NPR station in New Orleans, WWNO has 3 streaming channels they offer: News, Classical, and Jazz. Meanwhile, the local WWOZ station is strictly music - local, jazz, funk, etc. Both stations broadcast in HD (although it’s dependent upon signal strength and radio HD isn’t like streaming HD) which is fine for the car. But at home, I stream them because the SQ is better (still not high-res) than the tuner/radio channel. I’d say that for home listening, stick with streaming your radio station’s channel. To access the WWNO Classical channel on your phone, you can use the TuneIn Radio App and search for WWNO.

https://www.wwno.org/wwno-classical-network

If you use the TuneIn radio app on your phone, you can also search by music type and filter all of the classical radio stations available to stream. 

@bipod72 , thank you.  I will give WWNO a shake.  The WPR classical stream in Wisconsin appears to be a mono stream.  Why would anyone do that? 

only in the Jeep, NHL radio. If I want to listen to Music, my car stereo has a hard drive built in that I ripped over 1000cd's to, so I'm covered as well as I can stream quobuz and spotify from my phone. 

I only care about Hockey and quality music, sometimes Architecture (when I'm paid to do it).

I do - both in the car, in my home hobby shop on my Mac receiver and in the main room with my set up there - if I could find a bitchin' MR75 Id prob pick one up - I know there are better ways to get AM and FM but I do like to listen to baseball on the AM!  Old guy alert!