Angelo Prefers the Shared Experience of Live Radio to Podcasts

I've become fond of podcasts for my nighttime listening, but Angelo will take live radio over the podcasts:

I'm not feeling this at all. I think the shared experience of listening to (or watching something) live trumps any convenience a podcast can offer. I live in the Washington, DC area and have some good radios. I can find something of interest to me on the radio almost 24/7, with a few exceptions. Weekend mornings are sometimes lousy, with paid programming (and not even GOOD paid programming). Sometimes, late nights aren't great locally----but at that hour, I can pull out a good DX machine and find some good programming in other cities. I do understand the huge choice in podcasts, but for me, a podcast is an exception of something I really want to hear----while the rule is live radio. "Shared experience" is what makes the Super Bowl so important----and events like the moon landing. "Live" is king.

Comments

[Brandon]

I'm with Angelo on this one. There's something about radio being "live" that holds my interest much better than something I can download and listen to anytime. I understand the complaints that there's not much good on radio these days, but there's usually SOMETHING you can find out there - you just have to look. For more obscure content than what is on radio I usually find myself surfing youtube videos as opposed to listening to podcasts.

[Gary]

I agree with Angelo and Brandon.

I do find there is a lot more "paid programming" on the weekends than there used to be. This amounts to nothing more than a 30 or 60 minute commercial. I avoid these shows.

[Angelo]

I do like some of the paid financial advisor shows. Ric Edelman has a good show----and so does "The Mutual Fund Store." There are also paid shows for legal advsiors that have great formats and are very informative. These are the exceptions though----usually, paid programming is lousy.