oROEchimaru
Supreme [H]ardness
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I listen to entertainment news (AM republican radio lol), sports radio , talk shows and the music drives me nuts (it is pre-recorded and nation wide how interesting!)
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Because you're tuned into Alex Jones?Why am I not shocked?
You sold out cheap.Nothing is free in life.
When the music sucks (because it's controlled by the riaa and not the listeners), and the ads overwhelm and outplay the music, what's the point of even wasting your time with a "service" that is only a "service" for the very corporations trying to take your listening rights away? Even when you pay, you still get a nice bum-tickle when the RIAA slides its hand in there.Not sure what people don't understand, the ads are the reason the music is free on FM. If you don't want the ads then pay for a subscription based stream.
What's funny is there's an element of "metal" and rebellion in their music, as well. It just comes off differently.I cannot say I listen to AM or FM anymore. When I was on the road alot I listened to talk station but almost never music. I hate country and find what they call "music" in the past 20 years is crap.
Now when I take a trip; It is a book on MP3.
Funny thing is as I get older I appreciate more an more the music from my parents generation.
Big band music, Jazz, Bossa Nova. To think this was the music that they listened to as young people really shows the generational divide. No wonder heavy metal sounded like nothing but noise to them.
It's absolutely hilarious how self-centered we 'Murkins are...I think this is probably only including the U.S. Other Countries, especially the poor ones, depend on it for emergency broadcast, etc. I think it funny that some think the U.S. is the center of the universe.
NPR in the morning drive in and music from a USB thumb drive on the way back home in the evening if I listen to music. Unlimited mobile data has really spoiled me to even listening to music, since i can just have YouTube TV running instead - even if I have the screen off and just listen to it.
I thought there was that pesky little matter of having a ham radio license involved ...
I'm not well read on HAM stuff, but it seems really odd that you would need a license for just a receiver...
Now, if you want to transmit, I can see that...
Why am I not shocked?
Glad my drive shot hit the mark.Go troll elsewhere.
The death of AM/FM radio is at the hands of the same thing as traditional TV, advertisements. Too many, too often, too loud, and often irrelevant.
I thought the BBC had ceased shortwave transmissions in the Americas and Europe, only maintaining it for Africa and the middle East and parts of Asia.
Correct! Which is mostly why I enjoy tuning into it. Shortwave is at just the right frequency that it will actually propagate through the Earth's Ionosphere allowing it to travel practically the globe over, so it's something I enjoy tuning into whenever I can catch the signal because of just how far it has to travel to get to my house. Here's NOT MY VIDEO that has a guy actually showing where a BBC transmitter at Ascension in relation to where he is in the US and the kind of reception that is possible:
And yes, as posted prior, no license is required for any kind of reception. You can receive shortwave, satellite signals and even radio astronomy if you have much better gear than my cheapy rtl-sdr w/ a really long wire .
Yeah, even if only 50% of it was garbage, the fact that those types of stations only have seemingly 2.5 hour long playlists on shuffle is lame.No..all the good music stations around here got converted to shitty top 40 stations. I mean don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those "Hur dur all modern music especially pop sucks" types..but god damn if 95% of it isn't complete garbage. What isn't a top 40 station is christian..So I have my choice between noise..and noise with a guilt trip. So I extremely grudgingly subscribe to XM.
Yeah, even if only 50% of it was garbage, the fact that those types of stations only have seemingly 2.5 hour long playlists on shuffle is lame.
Because that's what people are willing to pay for I guess(as in, marketing companies). Clearly you can't have a radio on while working an 8-10 hour shift, because you'd just go insane hearing the same song 20+ times a day, 5 days a week. People on road trips can't be listening to this crap either, and kids in their way to school are just going to use headphones and their phone rather than dictate what the parent driving them to school listens to.That actually brings up my biggest gripe with these stations. They play the Same God F$##ing Awful song so many times in one day. I don't understand how anyone can stand that shit. I was running errands with my wife one day and she wasn't in the mood to hear rock (I get it, I go through my moods also) and just wanted to listen to some pop. We heard the same song 8 times in the course of 3 hours..8...Seriously why the F do they need to play one song 8 times in 3 hours? I don't give a shit how popular it is, That is just too damn much for any song.
Because that's what people are willing to pay for I guess(as in, marketing companies). Clearly you can't have a radio on while working an 8-10 hour shift, because you'd just go insane hearing the same song 20+ times a day, 5 days a week. People on road trips can't be listening to this crap either, and kids in their way to school are just going to use headphones and their phone rather than dictate what the parent driving them to school listens to.
Sirius XM does the same crap. Bought a car with a trial of their terrible service, figured I'd at least give a shot... nope horrendous quality on anything but the top 20 hits stations for each genre, constant dropouts(the local HD FM broadcasts were better), so I tried listening to stuff like the comedy channels... and I'd hear the same routines driving to work as I was leaving every day, played in the same order.
It's not like people over 70 are listening to 90s rock, 2000s rap, the latest pop hits, etc. so I really wonder where the hell these radio stations are getting demographics that justify their operating costs or even existence(clearly the advertisers are still willing to pay for them based on what they're giving to advertisers).