On Mar 9, 7:45*am, "Scooter" wrote:

- As a kid growing up in the 70's I loved radio.

Grew-up listening to the AM/MW Radio in the late 1950s
and early 1960s. Back then FM Radio : What's That ?
... and FM Stereo {Stere-Who?} had not started yet :-{

- I built many transmitters and programmed
- many low power stations.

While I have always been a simple Radio Listener
and nothing more.

- I loved radio when personalities were allowed to
- bring their personality to work and on air too.

Those were the days. "Characters Welcome"

- There was a time when you could tell what city
- you were in by simply listening to a radio station.

YES - There were a Hundred-and-One 'different' Voices
to hear all night long across the AM/MW Radio Band.

- To be honest I find most radio today stale.

Five Hundred Plus Stations with Rush and the Clones
during the day with Coast-to-Coast being heard on
as many all night long.

- With the exception of a few great stations
- it mostly all sounds the same.

Very True and a very few Great AM/MW Radio
Stations are left On-the-Air.

- Corporate monolithic programming for all.

Yes the vast majority are 'clones'.

- When I'm in the mood for music..

I simply turn-on one of the All Music and Commercial Free
Digital Audio Channels* on the Cable TV / Satellite TV.
* The are part of every basic TV Package and usually
give you 40 or more 'choices' in the Music Programming
that you can 'choose' to Listen To ) GREAT !
+ Plus No Computer is Required
+ Plus No Extra XM/SIRIUS Direct Satellite Radio
Subscription to Pay.
+ Plus Add an FM "Whole-House" Radio Transmitter
to the separate Set-Top-Box L&R Stereo Audio Outputs
and you have All Music and Commercial Free Digital Audio
throughout your Home.
+ Plus Only Costs $3~$5 extra a for another Set-Top-Box
to Add both Digital TV and Audio to another Room*
* Way Better and Cheaper than PC and DSS Audio.

CTV & DSTV : All Music and Commercial Free Digital Audio
Channels - Maybe the End of Music Radio . . .
CTV = Cable Television
DSTV = Direct Satellite Cable Television

someday, at least in the home ~ RHF