Does anyone listen to the radio anymore?

I do, but very occasionally. Mostly NPR for classical, or just to pick up the local weather/snowstorm info. I don’t do any real serious listening from it. I have a tuner and an extra input on the preamp....might as well use it.

We have a really good local classic rock station that I fire up my Sumo "Charlie The Tuner" every so often...

Sometimes listen to live feeds from NY on Sundays.

In the car: Classical (All Classical Portland KQOC), Jazz (KMHD Portland), NPR news and “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me”).

Does streaming count? At home, I stream the same sources. All Classical Portland has especially wonderful late night and early a.m. programming, along with Sunday Brunch with Suzanne Nance at 10:00 a.m. Pacific on Sundays.

Never had a tuner. Listen a lot to the radio in the car, primarily for news/discussion programs, occasionally for music (BBC 3).

@jimcrane

Does streaming count?

Sure, radio is radio. I think of local college stations or ones that live-stream local concerts.

I ran my tuner through my CDR (set to standby). Then when something came on that I liked, could just press "record". Then could listen later or use it to find the real recording if possible.

I've not listened to the 'radio' since the early 90's. 

For about ten minutes while I shower and brush my teeth.

I do.  On the MD side of the DMV area, we have a good npr station 88.5, a great independent station 89.3 and a hyper-local station that is wonderfully weird, 94.3.  But I don’t listen to them through my system — more car and kitchen. 

98.9 FM college station in Austin, all hi res, 3 channels. Running my digital FM tuner through my dac on the main system. Can sound great. Don't do it often, but nice option to have imo.

I love radio but I usually stream it now. It's still the best way to find new music. 

I listen to the radio every day via my Grace table top internet radios. There are a lot of good stations available.  My current standby in Radio Swiss Classic, which I listen to a couple of hours daily, mostly in the background. Another favorite is WDCB broadcasting from the Chicago area, which I listen to mostly on Saturdays - - some fine 40's jazz programs and an old time radio program ("Those Were. the Days") from 1 to 5 pm Central.  

I listen most days, though no tuner in main system anymore...

My favorite is Radio Jazz.FM from Poland. Also listen to KCSM in San Mateo.  

My Meridian tuner just died, but I am still listening to on my Tivoli radio which, stupid volume taper aside, still sounds great. I listen to the radio with my wife while having dinner - same show Monday to Friday. About five years ago, I stopped listening to the radio in the car. Once you do, you realise how much it distracts while driving. I've never had a tuner in my hi fi system. Funnily enough, I've had more tuner failures than any other component. Marantz, Revox and now Meridian - boo hoo.

In the kitchen washing dishes

Never when cooking. 

The Urban Jazz Experience, with Ed German on WLIW Southampton, NY.

M-TH, 8-11pm.  Excellent program, great DJ.  Sounds good on my MR78.

I listen to "coast to coast" on KIRO-FM 97.3. often i’ll listen to the local NPR station, KUOW-FM-94.9 even though a gnat’s beating wings has greater signal strength. all the best stations ’cept for KIRO are very weak out here in the hinterlands. the AM reception is far worse, all one hears is static and AC mains hash. 

I do sometimes listen to a couple of the Roon radio stations.  I enjoy them, too.

Jazz FM91

Only in my car. The dial never moves...I listen exclusively to WWOZ in New Orleans, an absolute treasure and, thanks to streaming, enjoyed ’round the world. Vinyl is still regularly featured and the playlist is most eclectic though they specialize in N.O. music, blues, jazz and soul with weekly features for the Cajun music/zydeco and latin music crowd. Many of the DJs have been there forever (Gentilly Jr. just hit the 40 year milestone) and fully understand and cater to the unique NOLA vibe. 90.7 on your radio dial. Definitely worth a look/see.

yes. 

On the weekends listening to my local NPR college radio station. Great broadcast quality on my circa 1982 analog tuner. Their broadcast sound quality far surpasses their 256 kbps AAC stream quality, on my system.

Everyday! We have WTMD 89.7 (adult alternative) and WBJC 91.5 (classical) in the Baltimore area. College radio stations offer great commercial free music. I can just hit the power button on my MAC7200 and I can instantly hear a great mix of music picked by DJs that know a lot more about music than I or any computer/algorithm. My Bluesound Node can’t tell me stories about the time it met Pearl Jam at Lollapalooza in 1992. And I love the live broadcasts of the MET Opera on Saturdays. There are so many cool ways to discover new music these days.

I think tuners can offer a different listening experience. Analog sound and as

@baylinor said, some stations are hi-res and sound really good.

I first had a Fanfare. Later got a Marantz ST6000 before their quality went way down. Day Sequerra, Magnum Dynalab, and McIntosh also really nice. McIntosh has some of the best looking tuners IMHO.

WNCW

Outstanding 

I have my local classical station KHFM playing in the background all day during the week. I’ve got it set up so that I can stream it from my tuner via Roon throughout the house. Much better quality then I could get from the internet stream. 

I never used to but a couple years ago I picked up a nice denon tuner someone was throwing away, and it actually worked  like a charm.

I find turning it on on weekend mornings while im doing stuff around the house is really pleasant, don’t have to look at my phone or a screen, its just become a nice habit. I also live in Brooklyn so have great local stations, wbgo, wqxr …

I have a much nicer streamer I could use to hear the same programs but for whatever reason I keep finding myself flicking on the tuner in the morning instead, guess it just seems easier and I don’t mind it staying on for hours at a time. 

Yep. Fire up the FM tuner in the early a.m while warming up the rest of the system. 

While warming streamer, dac, preamp, amplifiers playing some local FM music.  

In my car I listen to KNKX (Jazz Blues and NPR News) and at home stream Jazz 24 in the kitchen and dining room.

I love radio, although I often listen while doing something else like driving, working on a project in my shop, or other chores.  We have many good options here in  SoCal with two classical stations, one jazz, NPR, and Pacifica on standard FM.   I also enjoy a couple of HD digital channels (with no commercials) playing pop oldies and be-bop jazz.

For some reason the old tube tuners sound great, even on AM.  I have a mono system in my garage shop with a Fisher Series Eighty tuner/preamp and homebrew 6B4 SE amp driving a single Klipsch Heresy. Sounds lovely.

I’ve been streaming 90.3 KEXP Seattle for years. Good quality sound as well (for streaming). Mostly “alternative” but they have a variety of other music programming too. 

I listen to KPIG (Freedom California) and a Blues station from Altea, Spain that broadcasts in FLAC, both via Roon.  The first has real, live, disc jockeys.  I miss DJs.  I grew up in LA during the 1960s with outstanding AM and FM rock radio stations, then moved to San Francisco and listened to KSAN.  Back in LA now.  In the car I listen to sports radio and NPR.

As my home system has improved, radio has deteriorated.  

All in all, radio today is a pretty sad landscape.  

Finally, I loved WKRP on TV.

Portland (Oregon) has a pretty good Classical music station, which sounds nice coming out of my Mac MR78 (with companion piece MPI 4, a useful diagnostic tool).

Yes. NPR. Used to have a tube Dyna tuner and an external FM antenna. Until I plundered its Telefunken tubes for phono amp use. Now, it’s only the car or the phone app.

My brother still does.  I Hooked up an old stereo system in the family house with a steamer/DAC with a Qobuz account and a CD player.  Showed him how everything worked.  My brother hooked up the antenna to the wall and listens to a classic rock FM station.  My last holdout was the car but once I could connect my phone with Apple Car Play I stream my music playlists instead.  Still love that old time rock and roll.  

I listen to the radio on the way back and forth to work. At home? No. I live in a "bowl". Hills in every direction, no reception.

I sold my tuner and have not listened to music radio for over 15 years but still I am an avid  listener to news radio, especially Bloomberg Radio, when driving.  Getting nostalgic as I always do, this post has brought back memories is the late 60’s and early 70’s listening and falling into a deep REM state sleep to sultry voice of the beautiful Alison Steele, The Nightbird, on late night WNEW NY radio play album cuts both in and out of the mainstream, and interviews of musicians, through my Koss Pro 4AA headphones and Pioneer SX828 Receiver. Think I had a middle/high school crush on her.  I also was an avid listener to PBS NY classical music and used to record the occasional live performances offered on my Advent Cassette Deck on Memorex Tape. 

No. A few months ago, I was overhauling the basement shelves, and found a box. My tuner. I realized I had pulled it out of one system to make room a year ago, and meant to bring it upstairs to another room. And forgot. and never missed it. The radio, and more, I listen to I do through one of my streaming apps (Volumio, for instance). I remember A/B'ing that stream and the over the air, and the stream was way better. In the car, I might punch on the news once in awhile, but never the music stations anymore, probably more than a decade.

I haven't listened to an actual radio station since satellite radio became a thing. I don't even have any AM/FM presets set up in my current vehicle.

Never been without a tuner since 1974. NPR and college stations. Well-produced local music shows are among my very favorite things. More distant stations need streaming via a Cambridge backup unit that allows individual station selection. Evidently this feature doesn't exist on Qobuz which I play via Aurender. 
The Qobuz pre-selected stations seem good choices, but have always disappointed. Of course I listen in the car too. When reception peters out there are always Pynchon novels on Audible.

Thanks for the nostalgia.

Sure do, in the car.  The newest car I ever owned was a 2000.  Currently drive a 1998 Toyota.  No streaming in that for sure!  However, I am looking for a new used car somewhere around 2010, with Bluetooth but before the "touchscreen" controls came out.  Old school.  Can't stand driving my sisters Subaru with that god awful huge touchscreen controling everything.

I wish someone could answer this question as it pertains to radio.  Wisconsin Public Radio recently “updated” their entire program schedule dividing it into two parts, talk radio and news, and the other half “all classical”. The classical half broadcasts on an AM station and the overall fidelity is marginal, being in mono.

I complained to them about this and their answer was to stream it.  So, I have taken to streaming it from my cell to a smart speaker at home and through my car stereo when driving.  Still, the quality of the stream seems really poor, and sounds as if it is mono.  Obviously, the “smart” speaker is mono. 

My question is, is the streaming fidelity as good as the former FM stereo broadcast or more specifically, are there differences in streaming quality and how are those differences measured?  My impression is the streaming quality of WPR is nowhere near that of the former FM stereo broadcast. 

As a result, I have stopped listening to WPR.  If someone could direct me to an all classical station with reasonable fidelity I would most appreciative.

I only listen to the radio in the car, and I only listen to two NPR stations, WNCW and WSGE (both located in small NC towns).  Most of the vinyl I buy is from hearing obscure artists on these stations, so radio still serves an effective need for me.  Also, the "World Cafe" show on NPR is outstanding. Great mix of legendary, and up-and-coming artists, usually playing their stuff live in the show's studio.

Yes! I listen to NPR on WUSF 89.7 FM Tampa. Mitsubishi DA-F10 on 24/7. 

Fifteen years ago, WQXR in NYC sold its frequency (96.3) to Univision and moved to 105.9 with a much weaker signal. I live in Westchester, and reception is much worse than it used to be. Streaming is the only way to get listenable sound. I no longer use FM radio at home, and the sound in my car FM radio is poor.

Predominately listen to the air-waves radio in the car to our local college run public radio station. At home, I stream several radio stations both local and abroad. I also often stream Radio Paradise when I want someone else to take the reins on music selections. But I haven't used a tuner in ages at home, despite having one. 

@lubachl The local NPR station in New Orleans, WWNO has 3 streaming channels they offer: News, Classical, and Jazz. Meanwhile, the local WWOZ station is strictly music - local, jazz, funk, etc. Both stations broadcast in HD (although it’s dependent upon signal strength and radio HD isn’t like streaming HD) which is fine for the car. But at home, I stream them because the SQ is better (still not high-res) than the tuner/radio channel. I’d say that for home listening, stick with streaming your radio station’s channel. To access the WWNO Classical channel on your phone, you can use the TuneIn Radio App and search for WWNO.

https://www.wwno.org/wwno-classical-network

If you use the TuneIn radio app on your phone, you can also search by music type and filter all of the classical radio stations available to stream.