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Who likes listening to the radio?

Gaza69

 I cant seem to settle on a radio station. Maybe I can see how long I stay with radio 6, goodish music and no adverts( pure heaven maybe). Then my others are radio sussex, world service but get bored with these easily. I'm autistic and have adhd also and find my over active mind so frustrating. Regards

  • I struggle if there is a lot of talking on the radio, 6 Music is good for me most of the time, but sometimes move over to Radio 3 in the afternoons, between 1 & 3.

    I find I work better with the radio on, often listening to 2 or 3 things at the same time :-)

  • I listen to Radio X while driving; but I do switch off whenever the News and Ads are playing, also when Chris Moyles or Johnny Vaughan are talking s**te, as usual. 

  • in reply to Chris

    Its a slippery slope. I refuse to pay a YouTube subscription, even if I do hate the ads. The one that really bugs is services like Now TV, where you pay their subscription and there's still an advert at the start of the programs. At least it is only one ad and its usually for another show on the service but still its so irritating on a service I already pay for.

  • in reply to Meeples

    This is the issue I'm finding with watching YouTube. It becomes an almost constant cat and mouse game with the adverts. When the algorithm realises I'm paying attention enough to hit skip, I then get hit with unskippable ones. I should just use an ad blocker really. Spotify a little better... but still get ads. I feel if I pay for subscriptions, how far do you go?

    - YouTube

    - Spotify

    - Netflix

    - Amazon Prime

    - Britbox

    So many options, each with different content, as well as overlaps... you could spend over £50 on subscriptions before you contemplate Internet and any other stuff like sky... which I also refuse to get.

  • in reply to PersonAnon

    We record all our TV shows too and I refuse to watch anything on the catch-up channels because a lot of them have ads in now. I think I'd honestly prefer to miss an episode of something than have to sit through adverts.

  • in reply to Meeples

    Yes I won't tolerate ads for a single second - you can literally feel your life ticking away.  I hit the off button instantly on ads.  I won't even tolerate ads on TV (we record everything and ff ads - will not watch live commercial TV).  

  • Used to listen to Radio 4 at one point but went off it and I find music radio has too much news/adverts/DJ stuff in it, when all I really want to do is listen to the music. Love podcasts though. I can listen to those endlessly. Quite enjoy finding the random music playlists on Amazon Music as well, but much prefer to just stream an album though, where all the songs will be in the right order.  

  • I find that if I can't sleep in the early hours, BBC World Service Radio (on the same frequency as BBC Radio Four) will put me out like a light. 

    Like. A. Light.

    I've heard the beginning of s-o-o-o many World Service programmes, and the end of none of them. 

    For that reason, World Service is one of my favourite stations. (Have to be careful not to switch on before Radio Four has closed down for the night ... 'Sailing By', the music played to allow ships to tune-in accurately before the Shipping Forecast, is a real trigger for depression, for me.)

    Incidentally, vintage Westerns will do the same in the afternoons.  I work odd hours, sometimes, and occasionally need to catch up on sleep in the day.  Again, I've seen the first 10-15 minutes of almost every Western you can imagine but I've no idea what happens afyer that(!)  

    Perhaps not quite what you were asking(!)

  • I do enjoy listening to the radio. Its nice to have on in the background, and on matchdays or big boxing bouts, I like the oldschool feel of it. I'll sometimes listen, even when I know I could watch a stream. 5Live is reasonable during the day if you like topic chat. Not so much music. I used to be a Radio1 man, but have since moved more to Radio 2...