It is fun as a quirky hobby, but really, depending on it for information and entertainment was really bad. Radio and TV are what created mass culture, removed local dialects and accents.

It is a one-to-many channel where people in charge of the station have disproportionate power.

It is nice to have as a simple alternate way of communicating, but boy, how am I never giving up internet access to get back to those.

Speaking of which, if anyone is interested, I'm (re-)starting a community radio station for Lemmy users, by Lemmy users. Launching this year:

!radiolemmy@lemm.ee || https://radiolemmy.com/

I'll need DJs and curators to help me make programming blocks. If you have music you'd like to share or a podcast then you are needed! Check the community often; within the next few days I'll make a post on how you can help contribute.

Edit: Given the community we're in, I feel like it's my duty to mention that unless you so happen to live in my neck of the woods, this will be an internet-only station for the vast majority of listeners. The OTA component will come later next year, and will be extremely low power to avoid expensive licensing fees (the digital broadcast license is expensive enough as-is).

Not as exciting—I know—but I'm still hoping that some of you will still check it out when I launch in Q3 this year.

I'm involved with a radio station in my area and it's soooooo cool to sit in on shows. All of the stuff you hear is done by live humans. They go in and manually put CDs and curate the playlists and control the levels of everything. Sometimes they talk in between with some context for the song or random musings they have. Sometimes whoever is hosting will dedicate a particular song to somebody they know. It's so endearing and human. Occasionally they'll have a prerecorded show but most of them are live.

Oh boy, I sure do love advertisements

Bring back pirate radio 🏴‍☠️ (UK people will remember)

Question: Do radio broadcasters have any indication/numbers on how many are listening in while on FM/AM?

Reddit 'Wholesome': Local inspirational 6th grader raises enough money in bake sale to pay off autistic classmate's lunch bills.

Lemmy Wholesome: Actually wholesome.

In Germany we quite a few really cool alternative radio stations. They all have their local frequencies, shows and so on, but also share a German-wide morning show. It’s mostly recoded by the bigger projects, like in Berlin, but otherwise it would just take too much resources from small volunteer run stations.

we lost our local radio station last year as the owner aged out. I'm worried about who will acquire that slice of the spectrum.

there is a college station still in a neighboring town at least.

I’ve got a nice little local radio station I like because they play a wide variety of stuff. Not just the same ol top 10 on repeat. Plus very few ads (unless it’s Membership Drive season)

College radion is my go to

Hell yeah community radio!

Anything good over the air?