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I Only Listened To The Radio For A Month

Mic The Snare | March 31, 2026



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Do you listen to the radio often? What stations are your favorites? Let me know in the comments!

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 intro
00:10 what is a radio
01:23 my experiment
02:16 the radio landscape today
07:28 my first takeaway from this experiment
08:09 the pocket radio
08:57 the car radio / my second takeaway
10:09 the third takeaway
12:30 wrapping up / is radio dying?

ARTICLES SHOWN IN VIDEO
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/04/30/americans-listen-to-far-more-radio-than-podcasts-even-young-people-new-data-shows/
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/25/spotify-now-has-more-than-500m-users/
https://www.insideradio.com/free/nielsen-country-ac-continue-to-drive-adult-listening/article_cb589fd8-fc2d-11ec-97f9-4f217018b859.html
https://www.westwoodone.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Nielsen-2022-Audio-Today-How-America-Listens-Jun22-FINAL.pdf
https://radioink.com/2024/07/08/new-study-shows-radios-enduring-spanish-language-appeal/
https://web.archive.org/web/20190201052932/https://www.futureofmusic.org/article/research/radio-deregulation-has-it-served-musicians-and-citizens
https://www.nielsen.com/insights/2025/the-record-q4-audio-listening-trends/#:~:text=Between%20third%2D%20and%20fourth%2Dquarter,View%20project%20in%20full%20screen.

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  1. @aaronbruce5568

    March 31, 2026 at 12:59 am

    I love listening to the classical stations. It's pretty much the only way to find stuff I haven't heard before because there's no discourse around classical/baroque/romantic/even contemporary.

  2. @happychips1259

    March 31, 2026 at 12:59 am

    So I enjoy your take on radio, and agree with your look at corporate FM. I'm in Canada and rhe FM environment is similar to the US, as I hear all the US Buffalo stations with an exteral antenna on my 70's era stereo reciever.

    In Toronto we have 2 non sports talk radio on AM. And they are big in the market. I tend to listen to CBC radio one and NPR for more intelligent discussions on conteporary issues.

    To escape ads in the car for music on 'the radio' I hop on Sirius. My car got rear ended and after being fixed, I have unlocked sirius with no bills.

  3. @addicted2bass87

    March 31, 2026 at 12:59 am

    There's a tiny independent oldies station called WJQZ in a small town in rural Western NY, near the PA line. It has a pretty small broadcast radius, but it comes in at my cabin. They play 50s-80s music and will play some really obscure and forgotten songs. Most of the commercials are for local small businesses and I believe it is owned and operated by one family.

    WJQZ has become a part of the cabin experience for myself and my friends and family. It's a look into the past of what radio once was, before big corporations bought many of the stations. That station has a special place in my heart and I hope it's round for many years to come.

  4. @katherinel8141

    March 31, 2026 at 12:59 am

    In Southeast NH all the Boston stations are in range, and it was so fun to recognize all the shoutouts!! when you said sports I immediately thought of 93.7 WEEI

  5. @vHindenburg

    March 31, 2026 at 12:59 am

    On stations , I do not know how it works in the US, but the most interesting stations were the AM stations which only are on air on Satuarady and Sunday evenings.

  6. @vHindenburg

    March 31, 2026 at 12:59 am

    Old radios are kind of a hobby of mine. My oldest is from 1953.

    Sadly almost all AM stations have been shut down in Europe by now, only the French and somewhere in Eastern Europe keeping them up. Short wace and long wave almost dead too, died over the last ten years.

    That one evening in 2014 , I got over 200 stations on UKW with the regular ferrit antenna on UKW USW furthest away a station from Tennessee cross the Atlantic.

    Its almost the same with compact systems most radios are crap. So you usually do not know how good it can be.

  7. @MilquetoastQT

    March 31, 2026 at 12:59 am

    So bro is literally compaining about the consolidation of a dead medium that he only knows about because he created a one-off meme video and will never genuinely listen to the radio ever again?

    It's a "Don't recommend channel" from me, dawg.

  8. @yeticat3462

    March 31, 2026 at 12:59 am

    I found a website called Radio Garden a while ago, and it gave me a lot of opportunity to find stations around the world, so I could get an idea of what other countries listened to. But aside from hearing all sorts of music, I managed to find stations near me that promoted artists from my country, which I thought was super cool. I'm glad to see stations promoting local artists just as much as popular ones.

  9. @willfudge

    March 31, 2026 at 12:59 am

    You are just outside the range of WMPG and WUNH, two awesome freeform college stations in Portland, Maine and Durham, New Hampshire. Totally different than mainstream radio and the college stations in Boston.

  10. @camg5858

    March 31, 2026 at 12:59 am

    YES! Radio will never die. And if it does it will be due to money reasons or something that is not compared to opinion. As I grow up I listen to the radio more and more because I for some reason crave some dialogue between songs every once in a while. Or a good sports show/listen

  11. @aoBubs

    March 31, 2026 at 12:59 am

    I didn't know until last year that Colorado Public Radio had an indie station. They play whatever they want on there, it's pretty cool

  12. @MegaHellstrike

    March 31, 2026 at 12:59 am

    I didn't have to listen to radio for the last 3 months after being fired and, my brothers and sisters, during these 3 months I was HEALED. Like a freshly minted vegan fella it has become a topic nobody asked about but I will happily tell about when given the chance!

  13. @wayedk1040

    March 31, 2026 at 12:59 am

    There's 2 reasons I hate listening to the radio. First one is ads, I'm not listening to ads out of free will. Block them all. Second one is the contents, there's no station that plays what I want to listen to. There's maybe one but it's not available without an internet connection and you'll have a bunch of songs I don't really want to hear. I value albums, not really individual songs.
    Sure Everybody wants to rule the world is the best song ever but I don't want to listen to that on the daily either. The only reason radio exists is because it's by default in every single car and in work places it's easy because there's no complaints because it's "mainstream"

  14. @Joel-_-l

    March 31, 2026 at 12:59 am

    I am so sick and tired of Anxiety, partly just because the pop radio station that's on sometimes at work plays it at least every hour lol

  15. @lilamasand5425

    March 31, 2026 at 12:59 am

    hearing you name a bunch of radio stations that I grew up with living in the suburbs around Boston is so surreal 😭I forgot about Magic 106.7 but as soon as you said it, the little jingle for that station played in my head (do they still use that?)

  16. @p0stscripter249

    March 31, 2026 at 12:59 am

    I've also been listening to a lot of the radio lately since my new old hifi system came with a radio tuner and it's the lowest-effort way to put on music. But my experience has also hugely been affected by living in Canada- here a certain percentage (iirc it's 35) of the content broadcast has to be Canadian. So we get a lot of artists who coast on the success of one or two radio hits because they help fill that quota, and you'll hear a lot of songs that you recognize but probably couldn't name unless you Shazam it or happened to hear the announcer say it. And half the time it's just Bryan Adams again.

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