Let's Talk Radio.

[Cartooniverse]

@Maserschmidt

This was actually the first thing that came to mind for me when I saw the thread title. I grew up listening to this under the bed covers, and damn I have good memories of that.

In Philadelphia, when I was a teenager, these were rebroadcast every night. It happened to be right around the time when my brother and I had to do the dishes after dinner. We spent a couple of years doing the dishes in absolute silence so we would not miss anything.

[Waymore]

@Cartooniverse

Really good question. I am never without a book, & I have been that way since I was about the age of 7. Dad was a newspaper man and writer; Mom was a teacher. Books were bigger in our house than anything else including radio, and certainly including television.

I love my iPad. I find it to be a useful and somewhat miraculous device. But I live in New York City, and the phrase " apple-picking " has come to mean something quite dreadful. It is a crime that occurs with increasing frequency. You will be sitting on the subway and someone will grab your iPad or smartphone just as the doors are about to close and then leap off the train.

Because of this unpleasantness, I have given up on reading books on my iPad entirely. Returning to old favorites or finding used books at The Strand or elsewhere has become a rediscovered source of great joy.

As much as I embrace and am somewhat addicted to my technology, I do love a real book.

The recent news stories about the negative impact of being exposed to the light that e-readers give off before bed adds another wrinkle to this.

There are undeniable conveniences to Nooks and the like, but I don’t see them totally replacing book, not for a generation or two anyway.

[Thudlow_Boink]

@Waymore

Always wondered if there was a big overlap between avid readers and avid radio listeners.

If we’re going there, I wonder if there’s a big overlap between people who read on electronic devices and people who listen to podcasts on their electronic devices (as opposed to over-the-air radio).

[Cartooniverse]

I’m not so good at composing Polls in IMHO anyway, I always screw them up. And this sounds like it’d be a Venn Diagram instead of a poll.

Be interesting to see where the overlaps occur…

[Maserschmidt]

@Cartooniverse

In Philadelphia, when I was a teenager, these were rebroadcast every night. It happened to be right around the time when my brother and I had to do the dishes after dinner. We spent a couple of years doing the dishes in absolute silence so we would not miss anything.

Now that’s a great memory!

Because of this thread I listened to three in a row with my wife and daughter, and my daughter has asked for us to listen to more. (it certainly helps that the ads are edited out in the YouTube versions)

[Waymore]

@Thudlow_Boink

If we’re going there, I wonder if there’s a big overlap between people who read on electronic devices and people who listen to podcasts on their electronic devices (as opposed to over-the-air radio).

Great point. Seems like people who haven’t jumped on the e-reader band wagon wouldn’t be too keen on podcasts either. But who knows?

I’ve always liked podcasts because I see them as the democratization of radio. Probably few if any radio markets have enough listeners to support a podcast like Civil War Talk Radio. But podcasting economics are different and the potential audience is much larger, so it’s a thing.