Community Chat

[QVCkitty1]

I was just being a bit nostalgic this morning. I have always loved listening to the radio. Of course it's different now as I listen over an app and all of the stations are just a click away. But I love it as much as I did with my transistor radio next to my pillow late at night and loving that I could hear the far away stations. Any other radio lovers here ?

[meallen616]

Oh yeah, remember it well! My transistor radio under the pillow at night listening to all the DJ's and rock n roll music!

I just bought a portable radio from the Q for Christmas for myself!

[Kachina624]

I'm thoroughly disgusted with radio in my area.  I got a Bose some time ago and there's only one station, all classical, that I can tolerate.  I get tired of a steady classical diet.  Everything else is loud and intrusive.  IMO radio has really gone to pot and is certainly not worth the price of a Bose.

[Bookplate]

Much of my teen years were spent glued to rock music stations.  Now I only listen to NPR.  If I had satellite radio I would probably find a lot of stations I like, but I can't be bothered.  I still use a transistor radio, although they are becoming rare commodities too.

[QVCkitty1]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

I'm thoroughly disgusted with radio in my area.  I got a Bose some time ago and there's only one station, all classical, that I can tolerate.  I get tired of a steady classical diet.  Everything else is loud and intrusive.  IMO radio has really gone to pot and is certainly not worth the price of a Bose.

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@Kachina624 , My local radio is not good, so I use the I ❤️Radio App.

[ValuSkr]

I am still a fan of real radios.  I have two and listen every day, mostly NPR and sports talk.

[millieshops]

@QVCkitty1   Just this morning, I listened to a retrospective of Billy Joel hits from the 1960's and 70's while I was driving.  Love my oldies!

[781Florist]

I have kind of evolved in my relationship with radio as I made the journey from groovy to geezer.

When I was a 'tween to teen, I listened to all the AM top 40 hit stations with the fabulous DJs we had back in the day.  At night, I would listen to the Red Sox on my transistor, and if their game was over or they weren't playing, I would delight in finding the Yankees, Phillies, Orioles, Cardinals or Senators in varying degrees of signal strength.

From my late teens through to my 40s, I loved talk radio.  I was in the ICU following a very serious auto accident in the mid 80s, and Larry King and my radio kept me 

company in the wee hours when I was unable to sleep.  I always had a soft spot for Larry after that.

Nowadays, talk radio is too strident and today's music (music?) is abysmal, so I play my Amazon music through my car speakers or I listen to Sports Talk radio.  In Boston, sports radio absolutely rules in the ratings!  

@QVCkitty1 ...Did you like Queen back in the day?  I loved their song "Radio Ga-Ga"

and especially the line  "Radio, whats new? ...Radio, someone still loves you!"

[On It]

Local programming from local DJ's is falling by the wayside. National feeds are becoming the rule of thumb. I miss the local DJ's who controlled music and features. Severe weather coverage was assured. Not so much anymore, if at all.

I am so old I remember Waylon Jennings being a DJ at one of the local stations near my childhood home.

[QVCkitty1]

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@781Florist wrote:

I have kind of evolved in my relationship with radio as I made the journey from groovy to geezer.

When I was a 'tween to teen, I listened to all the AM top 40 hit stations with the fabulous DJs we had back in the day.  At night, I would listen to the Red Sox on my transistor, and if their game was over or they weren't playing, I would delight in finding the Yankees, Phillies, Orioles, Cardinals or Senators in varying degrees of signal strength.

From my late teens through to my 40s, I loved talk radio.  I was in the ICU following a very serious auto accident in the mid 80s, and Larry King and my radio kept me 

company in the wee hours when I was unable to sleep.  I always had a soft spot for Larry after that.

Nowadays, talk radio is too strident and today's music (music?) is abysmal, so I play my Amazon music through my car speakers or I listen to Sports Talk radio.  In Boston, sports radio absolutely rules in the ratings!  

@QVCkitty1 ...Did you like Queen back in the day?  I loved their song "Radio Ga-Ga"

and especially the line  "Radio, whats new? ...Radio, someone still loves you!"

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@781Florist , I did like Queen. Now days I like sports talk, NPR, a lot of new music , and in the morning I listen to The Dave Ryan Show on KDWB in the twin cities, it is far from where I live, but I really like it.