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i listen to either my own cd's or sports/news radio on am. the choice of music is pathetic, which is a shame considering the size of chicago

Radio is terrible these days. Public radio is just about the only thing that I can bear. At least that way I am making brain cells and not killing them.

NPR is pretty much the only game in the country. Balanced in-depth coverage of news.

only in the car.

less, and only public radio at that. i can't stand clearchannel.

I would rather hear the music I like and want to hear, without annoying commercials!

mostly [90% NPR, 10% CBC) ... commericial radio stinks ! Also listen to College/University radio where possible ... ALSO listen to radio (as described above) as antidote to television

Thanks to my Tivoli model one and PAL I am now able to pull in several NPR stations that were hard to pull in even with some high end tuners. Internet radio is great through laptop and wi fi-jacked into PAL.

We can rest assured that the "golden days" of audio, when radio was king, are gone. For better or worse, radio stations have to pay for air time. Just like malpractice insurance, sponsors (and their associated commercial time) is a reality that one must accept if radio is the dominant listening mode.

I generally only listen to Public Radio. I think commercial radio has gone downhill steadily since the demise of the New York stations WRVR (106.7 Jazz Station) and WNCN (104.3 Classical Station) 20 years ago. Even the rock stations I loved such WMMR (93.3) out of Philadelphia are shadows of themselves. It is only a handful of Public Radio and College stations that continue to offer quality music and sound that is not hypercompressed and musically interesting. Even WQXR in New York (96.3) offers little variety and way more compression these days. So I switched to the Public Radio and College Statiosn years ago and those are the ones I chase after now.

Seems to become more useless and boring every year--probably due to monopolization.

The stations in my reception area play the same old crap, day in and day out, year after year. Fortunately, digital cable has music channels that, while the sound quality is abysmal, do offer variety both in genres, and in what they play within each genre.

Even in VT the long-hand of corporate radio has dumbed-down the airwaves. And I just bought a nice Magnum Dynalab tuner last year for this? I lived on a wonderful diet of NYC FM in the 70s and Boston FM in the 80s :-(

Listening lots more to radio, real radio as in NPR and university stations. Commerical radio is exactly that, all commericals (and drek).

the music stations are all the same. not interesting any more for me

In toronto we have a jazz fm radio which is currently bringing up new and exciting programs to the air, not to mention blues fm on saturdays. It's great to listen to at work and in the car when your stuck in rush hour! I think Magnum Dynalab and Synthesis are doing to right thing by introducing all new tube tuners, it's about time!

When a market research company called to ask which radio station I listened to, I named the local NPR station. They didn't believe me. It wasn't on their list because public radio and college stations don't subscribe to the ratings services. So who knows what the listeners want?

95% NPR & Classical from WABE public radio in Atlanta

Only in the car!

Less indeed.....but perhaps that is because I am not as young as I used to be. I rarely listen to the car radio, preferring instead the relative serenity of tuned out tunes.

Five years is too short. Radio has benn crippled for a long time.

Though I gave up on commercial radio years ago, in the last five years I stopped tuning in to the few stations I would occassionally check out because radio is limited by too much "sameness" and hardly any true program diversity. Exploring radio used to be fun & exciting when you could find stations with music or topics that were different from what you were accustomed to and that provided a new or interesting experience. Sadly, it seems station owner's "bottom line" will be the ultimate determinant in what listeners will get to hear.

Paying for radio content is not my problem...finding radio worth paying for, is.

ClearChannel has destroyed AM, and FM is just as bland. Thank God for PBS!

I listen more, but now almost exclusively to my local NPR station and independent community station where I can hear inelligent information, classical music along with real jazz and authentic bluegrass.

Moved to XM

I find myself tuned in to classical more, oldies the same, jazz almost none, current rock almost none, bluegrass shows whenever I find them, celtic whenever I can.

jazz and blues fan-not that many stations to listen to.

I'd blame this on clear channel communications

Radio has become too bland. Especially for Rock and Roll. It is nearly impossible to find a rock station that plays more the 5 different songs. I live in Detroit, MI and I listen to a Canadian rock station and public radio only.