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What DO you listen to when driving?

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vibe

2 other people and I were having a coffee shop (OK Burger King) discussion and the subject turned to radio. Mike said he commuted to work (p/t)about 30 mi and would listen to an oldies channel until the station weakened, put on another, more local,oldies station and reversed the process on the way home. If a game was on he would listen to the sports station. The other guy, George, said he had an AM sports station (the Fan) the FM sports station WEEI, and an oldies channel on the presets. If the wife was in the car, she insisted on an easy listening station, WSRS which drives George crazy. George is retired. Both were adamant that that was it. Mike added that his wife knows better than to touch the radio in his car.
I told them I was a channel surfer and didn't use the presets very much. Forget the format, if the song is good, it's good. I am most partial to classic rock although most classic rock stations are pretty bland and don't seem to play the extended version very often. And I listen to sports radio as well. All of us are 6o ish in age. My better half rarely, if ever, wants me to change the station unless it is to classical on a long trip. I can stand THAT for about 30 min or so.
So what are YOU listening to when driving? A wide variety (like myself) or a real narrow offering like my friends? Does anybody mess with the radio when driving?
 
I like to listen to all music, all genres except commercials and announcers that aren't talking about music. If they think I am interested in their personal life or weekend plans I change the station. As you can imagine, I change the station alot.

Keep in mind the CD is commercial free.
 
We travel from Tallahassee to Tennessee to visit relatives at least a couple of times every year.

We listen to K-Love on occasion, but mostly take along a Philips Go-Gear and just listen to country and some Christian music. I just put in
some music from our Internet station and we're good to go.

Occasionally I listen to US101 in Chattanooga, a country station.

But more and more we're leaving the radio off completely.
 
I'm on the road a lot in West TN and North MS on my main job, and I listen to WAY-FM or Air 1 (Mostly in NW TN) when I can get them, and also K-LOVE at times. A lot of the time though I listen to my MP3 player with classic Christian rock and mostly clean comedy albums.
 
In northern VA when driving to and from work, sometimes I just listen to a MP3 player connected to my car radio. When I am not using the MP3 player, it's usually WTOP FM for news and traffic, or WFLS, a country station in Fredericksburg, VA. Wash. DC needs a station like Philly's noncommercial WXPN or Austin, TX's KGSR. The lack of such station is the reason for the MP3 player.
 
ddsparxx said:
In northern VA when driving to and from work, sometimes I just listen to a MP3 player connected to my car radio. When I am not using the MP3 player, it's usually WTOP FM for news and traffic, or WFLS, a country station in Fredericksburg, VA. Wash. DC needs a station like Philly's noncommercial WXPN or Austin, TX's KGSR. The lack of such station is the reason for the MP3 player.
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In the Chicago area for me it's either WBBM 780, or the 50s & 60s channel on XM if they're playing something decent.
 
I had XM radio few years ago both at home and in my car before the 2 satellite radio companies merged together. I have listened to mostly rock channels.
 
vibe said:
2 other people and I were having a coffee shop (OK Burger King) discussion and the subject turned to radio. Mike said he commuted to work (p/t)about 30 mi and would listen to an oldies channel until the station weakened, put on another, more local,oldies station and reversed the process on the way home. If a game was on he would listen to the sports station. The other guy, George, said he had an AM sports station (the Fan) the FM sports station WEEI, and an oldies channel on the presets. If the wife was in the car, she insisted on an easy listening station, WSRS which drives George crazy. George is retired. Both were adamant that that was it. Mike added that his wife knows better than to touch the radio in his car.
I told them I was a channel surfer and didn't use the presets very much. Forget the format, if the song is good, it's good. I am most partial to classic rock although most classic rock stations are pretty bland and don't seem to play the extended version very often. And I listen to sports radio as well. All of us are 6o ish in age. My better half rarely, if ever, wants me to change the station unless it is to classical on a long trip. I can stand THAT for about 30 min or so.
So what are YOU listening to when driving? A wide variety (like myself) or a real narrow offering like my friends? Does anybody mess with the radio when driving?

Usually Fox Sports 103.7 from Chattanooga or 97.3 in Cleveland,Tennessee
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ddsparxx said:
In northern VA when driving to and from work, sometimes I just listen to a MP3 player connected to my car radio. When I am not using the MP3 player, it's usually WTOP FM for news and traffic, or WFLS, a country station in Fredericksburg, VA. Wash. DC needs a station like Philly's noncommercial WXPN or Austin, TX's KGSR. The lack of such station is the reason for the MP3 player.
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WRNR needs to boost its signal. Its not non commercial but its close to XPN's style. There used to be another MD/DC station that was good too.
 
Of late, most of my driving is local and the in-town AM station had a good syndicated lineup.
When the station changed hands and dropped on a duplication of a country station of theirs, I began to listen to more public radio. One area AM station still has some talk, but that's about it.
 
I used to listen to the Golden Hours radio reading service via KOPB's SAP channel on a modded Sony ICF36 that I bought from Dr. Elving whilst driving to work. (I didn't subscribe to the newspaper--still don't--and it *is* just a little dangerous to read a newspaper while driving anyways.)

Then about a year and a half ago OPB suddenly decided they didn't wanted to have anything more to do with Golden Hours, so the SAP channel sat mostly vacant. Now that KOPB is an ATSC broadcast it's kind of a moot point.

Driving through NE Oregon, if I don't have a disc running I usually have the Evergreen RRS out of Seattle going on that same rig, via KPBX's 67 kHz. (Washington news in Oregon. Whoda thought? ;o) Nowdays when I am here in town, I just slip a disc into the player and be done with it. Lately it seems to be a disc of old episodes of Voice of America's "African Music Mix" and "African Beat" programmes.
 
About a 30 minute drive to and from work. I listen to XM a lot.

1-60's on 6
2- Watercolors-71
3-CNN
4-50's on 5
5 -Chill

Sometimes talk on Ham radio to friends going to work.
 
I hate to admit it, but I'm a button pusher. I have 12 FM Presets and 6 AM Presets. I primarily button push between 3 stations - HOT 93.7 (hip-hop), 102.9 The Big D (Oldies/Classic Hits), and Radio 104.1 (Alt. Rock). This afternoon however after work I was listening to Polka Party on 990 AM when I was driving from Walmart to my parents house. Then after I was done taking care of business there I kept 990 AM on after as I was driving to the grocery store because they were playing English Language Contemporary Christian Music instead of their normal Spanish Language Contemporary Christian Music/Teaching format they normally run.
 
Considering that my method of transportation IS NOT a car, my choices for stations are somewhat limited (Though are nonetheless very good). I listen to Oldies, Sports & News/Talk (Pretty much in that order).

Here in Denver, the stations I typically listen to are as follows.....

OLDIES - KXKL-FM 105.1
SPORTS - KKFN-FM 104.3, KEPN-AM 1600 & AM 1510 (I forget the call)*
NEWS/TALK - KKZN-AM 760 & KTNI-FM 101.5 (In that order)**

* In that order
** KTNI just recently made the switch from being "Indie 101.5" to becoming a News/Talk station which I'm beginning to like, though I have yet to listen to it while on the go with my portable radio (Which is an AM/FM/SW radio with Local & DX reception capability).

Just my $.02 worth :)

Cheers :)
 
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