Do you listen to broadcast radio?

[Gups]

The radio is always on in our kitchen.

Radio 4 mostly plus radio 5 (sports and news) when the missus isn't around. 5 extra when the cricket is on.

Saturday evenings, radio 6 for Giles Peterson and then Craig Charles' superb Funk and Soul show.

[derspiess]

I mainly listen to AM stations in the car, usually sports shows.  Switch between Dan Patrick and Mike & Mike in the morning, and varied sports programs during the evening.

I have a little one-speaker Tivoli radio I keep on our kitchen table & have started using that to play music at dinner.  Kids seem to like it, but it's a constant struggle to keep them from changing the station-- they're going to ruin the analog tuning dial one of these days.

At work I listen to Pandora or stream from my Google Music collection.  At home if we want to listen to music I fire up the Xbox and use that streaming service.

[Neil]

The radio is always on in our kitchen.

Radio 4 mostly plus radio 5 (sports and news) when the missus isn't around. 5 extra when the cricket is on.

Saturday evenings, radio 6 for Giles Peterson and then Craig Charles' superb Funk and Soul show.

Does cricket work over the radio?  I just can't imagine listening to any sports over the radio.  TV is the way of the future.

[derspiess]

Does cricket work over the radio?  I just can't imagine listening to any sports over the radio.  TV is the way of the future.

Dunno about cricket, but I regularly listen to baseball, basketball, football, and sometimes hockey over the radio when I'm in the car.  Good for exercising the imagination, since you automatically picture in your head what is going on.

At home I stream audio for Cardinals games (I'm too cheap to subscribe to mlb.tv) and WVU football/basketball games that aren't being aired on TV.

[Admiral Yi]

NPR, only in the car.

[Gups]

Does cricket work over the radio?  I just can't imagine listening to any sports over the radio.  TV is the way of the future.

Test match special is an institution in the UK - even people that don't like cricket listen to it. Because there's not that much action in cricket, there's lots of analysis of tactics, anecdotes and general banter. The commentators are excellent although a little eccentric - some of the greats have dies but the ones left are still very good. Even when I'm watching on the telly, I'll turn the sound down and have the radio commentary on.  Even if I'm at a match I sometimes put the headphones on as do many others.

Forget Shakespeare, teh Royal OPera House or even Monty Python. Test match special is the absolute pinnacle of English civilisation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Match_Special

[mongers]

Does cricket work over the radio?  I just can't imagine listening to any sports over the radio.  TV is the way of the future.

Test match special is an institution in the UK - even people that don't like cricket listen to it. Because there's not that much action in cricket, there's lots of analysis of tactics, anecdotes and general banter. The commentators are excellent although a little eccentric - some of the greats have dies but the ones left are still very good. Even when I'm watching on the telly, I'll turn the sound down and have the radio commentary on.  Even if I'm at a match I sometimes put the headphones on as do many others.

Forget Shakespeare, teh Royal OPera House or even Monty Python. Test match special is the absolute pinnacle of English civilisation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Match_Special

This.

It's the true test for an Englishmen, though Gup's enthusiasm puts me somewhat in to shame.   

[Neil]

Does cricket work over the radio?  I just can't imagine listening to any sports over the radio.  TV is the way of the future.

Test match special is an institution in the UK - even people that don't like cricket listen to it. Because there's not that much action in cricket, there's lots of analysis of tactics, anecdotes and general banter. The commentators are excellent although a little eccentric - some of the greats have dies but the ones left are still very good. Even when I'm watching on the telly, I'll turn the sound down and have the radio commentary on.  Even if I'm at a match I sometimes put the headphones on as do many others.

Forget Shakespeare, teh Royal OPera House or even Monty Python. Test match special is the absolute pinnacle of English civilisation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Match_Special

You know, that makes sense.  When I was in London in the summer of '08,  England was playing a test match against South Africa and one of my tour guides was going on about how he was looking forward to the cricket on the radio.  He made sure to take us by a stadium called Lord's, where the cricket was going to be played.  I watched it on the TV and some South African seemed to play really well., and got around 170 points, which seemed like a lot.

[Admiral Yi]

Test match special is an institution in the UK - even people that don't like cricket listen to it. Because there's not that much action in cricket, there's lots of analysis of tactics, anecdotes and general banter. The commentators are excellent although a little eccentric - some of the greats have dies but the ones left are still very good. Even when I'm watching on the telly, I'll turn the sound down and have the radio commentary on.  Even if I'm at a match I sometimes put the headphones on as do many others.

Forget Shakespeare, teh Royal OPera House or even Monty Python. Test match special is the absolute pinnacle of English civilisation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Match_Special

I met a number of Oxbridge grads at Harvard, and the impression I got from all of them is that the foundation of the quality English education is the ability to speak fluently, convincingly, and entertainingly about any subject at any time, particularly those you have no direct knowledge of.  Related a little, in my mind at least, to the French love of the sound of their language.

So I can definitely see where you're coming from.

[Syt]

Does cricket work over the radio?  I just can't imagine listening to any sports over the radio.  TV is the way of the future.

Test match special is an institution in the UK - even people that don't like cricket listen to it. Because there's not that much action in cricket, there's lots of analysis of tactics, anecdotes and general banter. The commentators are excellent although a little eccentric - some of the greats have dies but the ones left are still very good. Even when I'm watching on the telly, I'll turn the sound down and have the radio commentary on.  Even if I'm at a match I sometimes put the headphones on as do many others.

Forget Shakespeare, teh Royal OPera House or even Monty Python. Test match special is the absolute pinnacle of English civilisation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_Match_Special

I imagine it to be something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znmjnEMqHeg

[mongers]

Almost exclusively podcasts, of which there appears to be a backlog of about 20gig of them on my computer. 

[crazy canuck]

I mainly listen to radio still.