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In the Colorado front range, all the radio stations have developed a repetitive format. We used to have some good stations, but they have grown tiresome and boring. I do listen to XM at the office, and that is great programing. As far as listening in the car, I have to confess it's either talk radio or the cell phone.

I listen to the radio more than five years ago, but I can't say I'm thrilled with the offerings here in Dallas. The local alternative radio station, KDGE, is a ClearChannel outlet that has a playlist of 40 songs that it rotates heavily. To their credit, they do expand the playlist on Sunday evenings, but most of the time, it's the same songs over and over. I think most of the MOR and Classic rock stations have similarly short playlists. The point of the foregoing is, you don't hear much new music if they don't play any, and that is one of the issues affecting music sales.

Perhaps there should be a selection beyond "Way less" but still not zero. I avoid the commercial stations at all cost. I used to listen to radio during my commute, about two hours per day, but couldn't stand the adolescent humour and generic sounding music. Now if I forget to grab the CD magazine for my changer, I just leave the system off. NPR and the weather band are the only stations playing, unless my stepsons are in the car with me, and they didn't happen to bring thier own CDs and want to hear some pop. Finding new and interesting rock music is more difficult and time consuming than ever with little reward. Fortunately we have a local record store Vertigo (yes, records!), and a community radio station, WYCE, that provide some alternatives. I've been looking at tuners for our main system for some time, but I can't imagine why I'd buy one.

I've totally given up on commercial FM radio. I do not listen to it at all. It now insults my sensibilites. Luckily, I live in the NYC area where there are great non-commercial stations. NPR stalwarts like WNYC (classical) and WBGO (jazz) are creative outlets featuring music which varies from tradional to the avant-garde. Great college stations like WKCR Columbia University (mostly modern jazz and root musics), WFUV Fordham U. (forward thinking rock and folk)are great. Then there's WBAI (Pacifica Foundation) for free-form programming. Last, but not least, is WFMU which is voted year after year as the best free-form radio station in America. I'm lucky I have programming alternatives. I know that is not the case in many area . All I can say is that Clear Channel Communications and Cox Radio and all other radio chains can go to hell. Don't listen to them!

Two reasons I listen way more is that I have moved to the UK and enjoy Radio 3 here, and I bought a quality tuner.

I bought a decent tuner so now I listen more

Although I have a tuner in my home system, I only use radio as background noise in my car. It's quite rare to hear anything interesting or anything I haven't already heard hundreds of times before. I usually chage stations every few months when I finally get sick of the limited playlists.

Since Clearchannel and Infinity ruined the classic rock FM market in NYC, I try to listen to FM as little as possible. All they play is the same stuff over and over again. For example, Neil Young has released over 50 albums from which Q104.3 only plays half a dozen songs , and I've never figured out why "Heart of Gold" gets about 50% of NY's total airplay. So instead, I listen to albums (vinyl or CD) in non-audiophile mode whenever I just want to have music on.

Beside sport stations I listen to very little radio. Most of what is new in music doesn't intrest me. I dislike Rap, Country, and most modern Pop. What is considered Rock n Roll sounds old an stail. Most bands sound very similar as they did in the 80's. But I also must add that when I drive I focus most of my attention on the road. What ever is coming from the radio is just backround noise. My main system doesn't include a tuner. If I do listen to music on the radio it's through mt second system, which isn't much at all.

I am fortunate in being able to listen to CBC radio. I would not listen to most American stations, even if they were the only game in town.

I listen to the radio much less these days. All of the stations in my area seem to play the same songs all the time. Nowadays, the only time I seem to listen to the radio is when I am in my car. News, weather, traffic and sports talk radio. Ha!

A little more. Just because i like Tivoli's Model One so much.

I don't listen to commercial radio at all. I seek out the few remaining classical, jazz and alternative stations and support them.

Ilisten to the radio more now than five years ago, for the sole reason that we now have two cars instead of just one. Before, I had to take public transportation to work, but now I listen to the radio on the way to and from work. Unfortunately, there was, and still is, just one station that plays classical music, and it's a commercial station, so there is a lot of music you will never hear there. As a result, I often resort to listening to the news on the AM band or to NPR.

The same, which means very little. I usually only listen to radio in the car. Usually cyclying between WVUM FM(University of Miami) for alternative rock; WKAT AM for classical music and WLVE for smoooooth jazz (but only when the other two channels have commercials) I hate smooooth jazz. I have NO plans for buying a tuner for my home stereo.

I gave up listening to radio when Detroit lost its only classical music station. For me, radio in the Motor City is an electronic wasteland that offers nothing remotely interesting.

Due to the lack of uncompressed stations in my area I find myself discusted with the quality of sound. If stations concerned themselves with sound quality I would listen more.

Listen to sports radio 24/7. Music radio in D/FW absolutely sucks.

Mostly in the car

I listen at work. I listen more thn before as we have KNBA which is an independent radio station without commercials that plays lots of new and independent artists. It also hosts David Dye's World Cafe which I really enjoy. A great station. If it wasn't for KNBA I probably would listen less, as most radio doesn't have much appeal.

By "radio," I assume you mean "music on radio." If that's the question, I would say I listen to less now although I would have to push the time frame back to something more like 10 years. In my opinion, that's when music radio really began to decline. At that time, I took a road trip from LA to Alaska and back and listened to many radio stations along the way. I was dumbfounded by how many stations had switched to an oldies format. Since then, it's been difficult to find anything new or exciting in rock radio even in a market as large as LA. These days, all the interesting new groups seem to be on Internet "radio."

As bad as radio is (hence part of the reason for the recent AM Talk Radio explosion), the quality or lack thereof of FM radio has little to do with poor music sales. Have you looked at the US Top 100 CDs? They are 99% garbage.

I need to qualify why I chose "Way less." FM commercial radio has not been on the so-called cutting edge ever since the days of the free-form stations in the '60s and '70s. The handful of free-form FM stations today are in the non-profit and/or college catagory. That's where I listen. I espectially appreciate the college stations with DJs who are honest music geeks. Not just music lovers, but music geeks full of factoids. They're not afraid of long or short tunes, or possibly offending a sponsor. The best stations in my area are ironically from the schools with the least notable communications programs, because they're interesting in spitting out loyal jocks who would just follow a playlist. I will disclose here, than I am a DJ on a non-profit free form station that is not college affiliated.

I gave up on radio about five years ago. I very rarely listen to it nowdays.

It depends. If you are asking do I listen to commercial radio more, the answer is way less. But I do listen to the radio more. I swapped the increasingly canned sound of most commercial stations for the variety offered by my local public radio affiliates. No, I haven't give up Led Zepplin, I've complemented it with the Cleveland Orchestra andt the Cowboy Junkies

My answer likely would have been "less" had I not moved to the Boston are three years ago. Here we have some excellent FM stations, including WGBH.

My reduced radio listening can be attributed to equal parts of poorer radio program material and less available time resource.

I listen more

Way more. I get NPR/CBC/BBC streamed over the Internet all day at work.

I listen about the same, but enjoy it a lot less