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How many people never listen to the radio at home -and satellite radio

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I'm sure there's stats on that and we radio geeks would like to believe lots of people do-but I'll bet many or most people listen in their car and possibly at work and that's it ! I would guess newstalk listeners might listen more at home.

Sirius/XM radio is SO good if you're into music and not 'radio jive'. What irony that Lee Abrams-who's probably most responsible for killing off free form radio was a major player in satellite radio !
 
I gave up on AM/FM when I bought my Zune in May 2009. The stations in Tallahassee aren't all that great to my ears. I listen to WFSU every once in a while for news or the BBC. I am not big on FSU athletics, so I rarely turn on the radio on. I almost filled up my media player with music and podcasts, time to start looking for another one.

I am so glad to have escaped Clear Channel/Cumulus hell :) Before Zune, I listened to WBZE (Star 98.9) a lot. I also listened to WTLY (or whatever they are now) occasionally. I got bored with the constant repetition of the same 12 songs. I like some Hip-Hop but the WWLD skews too young and hard core for me.

Most of the non-Cumulus/non-CC stations have a horrible signal; even if I wanted to listen, I couldn't.

I don't listen to terrestrial radio at work... the signals don't penetrate my office all that well. I stream WSB on the internet sometimes.

I don't subscribe to satellite... I wasn't curious enough to try it.
 
We listen to some HD sub-channels both at home, in bed away from the PC, and in the work vehicle.
They have a new radio sound; minimum interruptions except for the occasional promo and the hourly ID.
In order to compete with new media, radio must not sound like old media, as the HD streams we listen to do not.
 
At least you have HD in your area; Tallahassee is definitely in the technological dark ages with that. I get my HD fix when I go out of town... and that is coming to an end for me.
 
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