Does anyone listen to the radio anymore?

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.

@evanpress Yes well written, kind of ground breaking.  Wickedly funny, lovable characters and of cours Lonnie Anderson.  I nominate News Radio and Frazier to a lesser degree fun radio based shows.  Ironic I guess considering how one came to render another irrelevant.

While I am driving I listen to 75% sports radio talk shows and 25% music. That’s about it.

I have no idea what the quality of what the actual quality of the signal is and I don’t really care.

It’s car radio. You just listen and and sing along when something good comes on.

It is nice sometimes to get rid of our need to analyze and just enjoy the music.