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Fiddlin' with the old Philco

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My grandfather died at the age of 89 about 25 years ago. He used to love to light his pipe, warm up the vacuum tubes, and listen to his old Philco table-top radio, usually tuned to KDKA. On very rare occasions, he'd go surfing through the AM dial.

Has anyone here ever seen any sort of research or statistics on how many people in the Pittsburgh area actually sit and listen to the radio at home? I'm not talking about housewives having a station playing music in the background while they do housewife stuff. I'm asking about actually listening to radio programs at home instead of watching TV, surfing the net, or some other activity. Has anyone ever seen any recent research data on that for Pittsburgh or for the nation as a whole?
 
Would be interesting to see those statistics, may be hard to see them though. As for sitting and actually listening to the radio while not doing chores, driving, or working on the car in the garage, I doubt there are too many left who sit in the den in the evening and focus their primary attention to the radio like our grandparents, (or parents) did back in the days. You don't have that kind of programming more either. Now days all you get is what, overplayed songs on Kiss, a tape delay of Bill O'Reilly on KDKA and a disgruntled Michael Savage on 1047 mixed in with radio commercials of how to grow your hair back, get credit help and other various medical drugs for older men....

That's what you get for free radio.... :p
 
FightingIrishman said:
Would be interesting to see those statistics, may be hard to see them though. As for sitting and actually listening to the radio while not doing chores, driving, or working on the car in the garage, I doubt there are too many left who sit in the den in the evening and focus their primary attention to the radio like our grandparents, (or parents) did back in the days. You don't have that kind of programming more either. Now days all you get is what, overplayed songs on Kiss, a tape delay of Bill O'Reilly on KDKA and a disgruntled Michael Savage on 1047 mixed in with radio commercials of how to grow your hair back, get credit help and other various medical drugs for older men....

That's what you get for free radio.... :p
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That's pretty much my impression of the radio audience as well. I raised that issue because I've read so many people make reference to putting programming on the air that "attracts" an audience. It's not just here in the Pittsburgh forums. All over this forum in threads from different cities or in the forums about different formats people who say that they're working in radio all seem to be operating under the assumption that if something is simply shoved out the airwaves through the station's antenna, there are hordes of listeners using their "seek" buttons or twisting their tuning knobs sampling every station that will magically discover their station or program.
 
Here's the statistics on that question....

The answer is 1. I have some old Philco's, RCS's Stromberg Carlson's, Zenith's, Crosley's, etc. I also have a little AM transmitter which I run old radio shows thru and listen to them on those old radios. Probably not many of us out there.
 
Stations have learned the trick of driving listeners to their websites, but don't do a good job of getting people just casually surfing the net to turn on their stream and listen for any length of time. In short they dont' have the cash to use the "outside sources" to drive listeners to their frequency and haven't been able to make any headway on the 'net based ones.
 
I too on from time to listen to radio instead watching tv. I will take a beverage and a radio out to my deck and listen to radio. I listen to John Steigerwald or XM radio. I also listen to the Old Time radio channel on XM. I sometimes twist the tuning knob to here some DX signals but it not as fun as used to be.

I have to drive cross country a few times a year and I do enjoy being out west and hearing some the big signals from the western part of the country.
 
Seguetwo said:
Here's the statistics on that question....

The answer is 1. I have some old Philco's, RCS's Stromberg Carlson's, Zenith's, Crosley's, etc. I also have a little AM transmitter which I run old radio shows thru and listen to them on those old radios. Probably not many of us out there.
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More than you might suspect. People trying to recreate a mood.
 
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