What's the radio?
I'd like to know also, what a beautiful little object
Crosley radio model CR3036D – CL
@cris, @shittydwarfYep, that is the model.
Thank you! ❤️
Bring back pirate radio 🏴☠️ (UK people will remember)
it's alive and well. schedules are often posted on hfunderground.com
For the sound of sensation across the nation, listen to Radio Goodies.
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I'm involved with a radio station in my area and it's soooooo cool to sit in on shows. All of the stuff you hear is done by live humans. They go in and manually put CDs and curate the playlists and control the levels of everything. Sometimes they talk in between with some context for the song or random musings they have. Sometimes whoever is hosting will dedicate a particular song to somebody they know. It's so endearing and human. Occasionally they'll have a prerecorded show but most of them are live.
Oh boy, I sure do love advertisements
Really depends on the station. Some of them (especially the bigger ones) will have ads quite frequently, but others will have a few every now and then and there are some that don't have any at all.
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Question: Do radio broadcasters have any indication/numbers on how many are listening in while on FM/AM?
Not from broadcasting, but they can pay a ratings company like Nielsen to research certain samples of the population.
There's also a method that was used briefly in billboards to check what radios were tuned to as cars drove by. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/High-tech-billboards-tune-in-to-drivers-tastes-2744204.php
My understanding was it mostly picked up people listening to their aux to radio adapters though.
In Germany we quite a few really cool alternative radio stations. They all have their local frequencies, shows and so on, but also share a German-wide morning show. It’s mostly recoded by the bigger projects, like in Berlin, but otherwise it would just take too much resources from small volunteer run stations.
Do you have any info on how to listen to these stations? Like frequencies or a website where schedules are posted?
Assuming you speak German: https://www.freie-radios.de/
Or here a audio platform where a lot of their content is posted afterwards, where you can discover stations and shows: https://www.freie-radios.net/ (albeit those are confusingly similar URLs)
Pretty cool little setup
Thanks. Got mine pretty recently and I've been enjoying it a lot. It's nice when you want background noise but don't wanna curate a playlist on a streaming platform. I have ADHD so I need some kind of background noise to be able to focus on most things. All I have to do is turn it on, sweet deal.
we lost our local radio station last year as the owner aged out. I'm worried about who will acquire that slice of the spectrum.
there is a college station still in a neighboring town at least.
I love it when events have their own radio station - burning man and Neotropolis do this
College radion is my go to
Hell yeah community radio!
I love the same 3 songs, bad jokes and ads after every song.
Some stations are like that, but there's a lot of cool ones out there that play a variety of music and are not for profit so there aren't many ads. The smaller ones are usually better in that regard. Highly recommend checking out Radio Garden. It shows a bunch of stations that also stream from all over the world, cool stuff.
I love radio.
Anything good over the air?
There are still a few shortwave broadcasters. You could build your own shortwave receiver from a kit: https://swling.com/db/radio-kits/
There's a list of stations here: https://www.savenetradio.org/shortwave-radio-station-frequencies/
You can also get into a amateur radio fairly easily. In the US, lots of radio clubs put on license classes, especially for the entry level technician class license. Most other countries have an amateur radio scheme.
Thank for sharing! This is super neat!
It is fun as a quirky hobby, but really, depending on it for information and entertainment was really bad. Radio and TV are what created mass culture, removed local dialects and accents.
It is a one-to-many channel where people in charge of the station have disproportionate power.
It is nice to have as a simple alternate way of communicating, but boy, how am I never giving up internet access to get back to those.
As with most things, when big corporations take over it becomes bad. Definitely agree with you that using it as your only way of getting info is bad, but it's not much different from relying on one influencer or podcaster for all your info other than it being more likely to be more well researched. I will say at least with my local one it's a pretty diverse method of entertainment. They've got all kinds of weird and quirky shows on.
It is not only corporations. Single governmental voices are bad too, and many non-profits have their own political biases.
The difference with influencers and podcasters is that you have the choice between thousands of them. Radio would be like having the choice only between the top 5 of youtube, and you would have to tune in at a precise time to get it.
