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Just spent 3 days driving and found my radio to be virtually useless as 90% of its content were bash Obama and Obamacare talk shows, FM wasnt much better as many talk shows have supplanted music and what little music there was was Christian or country. whatever happened to Rock?
There's plenty of rock on FM in my big city. It's just not as popular with people under 35 as it used to be, so I expect it will eventually disappear from the radio in cities, too.
I have only a few AM stations I regularly listen to. One is an oldies music format, and not a run of the mill oldies station imho. A format that I can listen to (listening to it right now aamof). The other AM stations are talk and espn. As I get further away from the city, I can only get the talk station and espn, then espn fades out. There are a few FM stations on my speed station list; mostly music, but I do tune in to npr for select programs, top of the hour news most of the time. AM stations are good for road condition / accident slow down updates, and the previously mentioned top fo the hour news. I do think it is important to know your stations in your area though. And to have a good radio.
Just spent 3 days driving and found my radio to be virtually useless as 90% of its content were bash Obama and Obamacare talk shows, FM wasnt much better as many talk shows have supplanted music and what little music there was was Christian or country. whatever happened to Rock?
That happens on all of my road trip, no AM station that’s worth listening to. Everything is harsh hate talk radio shows on AM and lots of Christian or country music for the remaining stations.
I enjoy listening to talk radio if the “content” is of any value or worth, but the constant bashing of an issue or topic just isn’t worth the multiples of hours they spend broadcasting the same “smell”.
I usually turn the radio off after spending a reasonable time looking for something. XM radio is a good choice but I’m willing to pay the monthly fee for a few weeks of drive time on trips.
XM satellite radio is the way to go if you are traveling as you can hear what you want to hear.
Agreed. But you can also get the hate talk here if you really miss it. The nice thing about sat. radio is you can drive all over the country and never lose the signal. There have been a few spots in the mountains where the signal drops out.
Not trying to argue with anybody here, but we all have to take into consideration the following:
Private-sector radio stations make their money from their listeners, regardless of what the radio talk hosts speak of, be it love, hate, politics, religion, witchcraft, and so on. As such these stations will air the that their listenership want to listen to.
That said, perhaps in CONUS the radio stations' programs are crap, and this is not the case in Alaska. For example, I can listen to religion, science talk, politics, hunting, reloading, home remodeling, gardening, computers and electronics, crazy stuff on Coast To Coast, local politics and road reports, and so on...all on the local private radio stations. On top of that I can listen to NPR if I want (never do, but it's there).
I'm sure if you live in an area you are familiar enough with your local radio stations to know which one suits your needs, its a bit different if you are traveling and your scan feature is all you have on your radio to see whats on offer for any given area ,sometimes you get lucky and find what you want but on AM radio its very temporary,when the signal fades you are back to scanning,on my recent experience theres a heck lot of rightwing radio stations.
Its usually am/fm and if you want to listen to talk radio its mostly an am thing.
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