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I'm interested to hear why people listen to terrestrial radio though (especially for people in the United States). I stream BBC Radio 1 when I drive to work an
by btian 10y ago
I'm interested to hear why people listen to terrestrial radio though (especially for people in the United States).
I stream BBC Radio 1 when I drive to work and I live in Bay Area, but I haven't found a terrestrial radio station that I would listen to.
- voltagex_ 10y agoUp until recently it was too expensive to stream anything on a HSPA/LTE connection in Australia. In Canada, even more so. We have decent non-commercial options here on AM and FM.
- khedoros1 10y agoBecause I turn on my car, and without changing anything, the radio comes on. No batteries or data plans to worry about, and there's a decent interface that's integrated into my car. I can get the same stations through IHeartRadio. I could get a phone dock, a bluetooth device to connect to the aux input (car doesn't have BT), an adapter for power (cigarette adapter), and all that. And I'd spend 20 seconds each car trip turning on BT, opening the streaming app and navigating to the station, fiddling with volume. I could stream stations from outside of my area, but I pick up worldwide news all day anyhow. My commute's for more local stuff. I'm just not a fan of using my phone for streaming in general.
- jedikv 10y agoAlso FM/AM reception feels like it's more robust than DAB/LTE/3g reception - often I can still listen to FM/AM in areas where other wireless tech black out.