Posted on 01/25/2015 9:46:24 AM PST by lee martell
I used to enjoy several talk shows in my area on terrestrial radio stations.I listened to various local talk shows about politics and social issues. In the last three of four years little by little, almost all of my favorite shows have been ended, and replaced by Infomercials, Finance shows and Vitamin Advice for Health Maintenance. I don't mind listening to any of those replacement shows once in a great while, but when those are the only choices, I feel deprived of good radio.
I keep hearing that 'Terrestrial Radio is Dead!" almost no one in the high spending demographic ( 20 to 40 years old) listens to it, preferring instead to tune in online. If I listen to a radio station online, on my laptop, I will be tempted to keep looking into the internet and read the news as I already do. I'd rather keep both mediums seperate. Best Buy and Target will be my first stops to see the product. Best Buy staff is usually very helpful and polite. Any suggestions on a low cost, easy to assemble and use satelite radio. Do any of these satelite radio also play CD music, or am I being a little too 'old school' here?
I live in Central Louisiana, where the boring LSU claptrap breaks in, on the only classic rock station in the area.
I tried ‘iheart radio’ on the cellphone and the laptop. It kept updating with all the crap bebop, hickhop, and other banalities that think they are music, more than once a day.
For ‘internet raddio’, I use Live365, which has been around for 10 years, and I have been listening that long.
For a good classic rock and sophomoric humor, there does exist ‘the Walton and Johnson Show/app’. Go to their dot com, look it over, (believe me, they hate this Communist administration). I get them from 0530 to 0945-ish Monday through Friday. (After being a ‘Bob and Tom’ listener, these guys have been doing it longer, and they are not NYC-centric).
I have the XM side of the Sirius/XM radios. Coupled with a Crane transmitter I listen anywhere near my house with a cheap boom-box. See on-line how to boost the Crane’s power.
Also got a car-kit for the XM radio — great for those long trips.
It helps too know that you have to point your antenna at Minn. since the satellite is (roughly) above that state. That is approx due west for me, not toward the equator as I thought. I can’t say if it is the same for Sirius.
The Walton & Johnson Show sounds interesting.
I had the same experience with I.Heart, so I quickly deleted it. I don’t need a tidal wave of that “Margarine Music”,
I think mine is actually a Sirius/XM radio. I’ve been very happy with it.
Do you have a cell phone and Wi-Fi in your house? get the iHeart Radio App on your phone and you can listen to hundreds of stations and even make your own custom station with the kind of music you like. Listen to it all the time
Dear lee,
I’ve been a W and J listener before Hurricane Katrina, when I lived in the New Orleans area. I was relieved when I had found that they are broadcast over the local station.
“Margarine Music”? That is a term I know not.
(As an ‘80’s ‘field jacket with chains under the epaulets’ night-time small bar heavy metalist, and day-time Dept of Defense employee, I might not have ‘the ears’ for ‘margarine music’.)
Or visa-versa...
: )
I’m actively looking for one now.
Satellite radio will die. Consider a podcasting/Web casting application like Tune-In or Stitcher.
Amazons list of wifi internet radios
What? I pay $6.00 per month.
When your subscription is nearing its end, call and say you want to cancel. They will provide you with alternative offers to keep you as a subscriber. Stand your ground, do not accept the first offer they make.
Listen carefully to what is being offered. Sometimes the alternative offer is temporary ($5.00/mo for 5 mos)and you will have to call back prior to that offer expiring for another offer or the temporary offer may automatically roll over into a full price subscription.
Like others, I have done this for years. I am presently at $6.00/mo per year that automatically rolls over to $6.00/mo per year at renewal.
Just remember that they absolutely do not want to lose you as a subscriber. Goggle, " how to get best offer from SiriusXM," to see other people's experiences.
I just ordered one online. We’ll see what happens.
Only good easy listening station in Pittsburgh turned mod country. Searched everywhere on www for streaming music worth listening to. Only good station I’ve found was WHLC which streams out of western North Carolins. WKTZ is also not bad but their bit rate is relatively low fidelity. You can Google them to find their stream.
Some sources to find stations that stream on the internet with content that you like are:
Good luck. If you like Easy Listening civilized music there are some stations out there but it will take a major effort to find them.
I like Tune In Radio. It is an app that streams hundreds of AM and FM radio stations free of charge. We live in a remote, rural location with few choices over the air. Tune In is playing in my house most of the day!
b4l
Dear Tal,
That period of time was AFTER I had served in the military.
Ya’s cain’t crawl around in dah body of dah plane d’at d’ey’s bildin’ w’it chains on yo’ shoulders! Ya’s jus’ might git caught inna sumptin’ d’at jus’ might dah las’ t’ing ya’s done caught!
I signed up with XM just before the merger. Back then the XM recievers were not compatible with Sirius hardware. Docking stations, boom-boxes, and so on didn't cross connect. I don't know if that has changed.
With the small receiver, I can take it with me when we travel; the thing is smaller than a flip phone.
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