Essay 1 - Radio habits

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Here are a summary of some aspects of your radio listening habits:

- Many mention listening to radio only/especially when on the move - on trains, subways, taxis, buses, bicycles, on foot and especially in cars (driving themselves or being driven by parents at an earlier age). This is often connected to the fact that you don't have access to other media (TV, Internet) in those (and some other) situations.

- A few mention radio when doing work around the house (doing the dishes, cleaning).

- Some mention parents with heavy radio habits and radios in every room at home, sometimes all tuned to the same channel at the same time so that dad can move around and not miss any of the content.

- Quite a few say the "hate commercial radio", that they "can't stand" all the commercial breaks and the advertisements or hear the same songs being played again and again. Taking into account that commercial radio need large audiences, it is (based on your essays) unclear who actually listens to commercial radio.

- A lot of people talk about radio vs dowloaded/streaming music. Some use radio to find new songs and new musical influences so as to "break out of" the playlists on Spotify or the mp3 songs on an iPod. What many have in common is using the radio to listening to (only) music in their youth (if they listened at all), but with more and more people branching out to also include (some) talk radio of different kinds lately (including podcasts) in their "old age" (20's).

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