Are you Listening to Radio Channels?

It’s been a long time since I listened to radio channels. So I thought why not try it now, especially as I have bought a cell phone with decent front speakers, recently.

Here are my observations just after one hour of listening to various Radio Channels in Chennai:

Songs are played only for 50% of the time.
Remaining 50% of the time is taken up by ads, RJ chatter, interviews, theme music of the radio channel, etc.
Some channels are clearer than others: Not sure if this is location/device specific. But since they don’t consume my 3G bandwidth, so I am happy!
Talking about 3G, if you live outside Chennai and want to listen to radio channels in Chennai, there are a few radio channels that stream via the Internet, it seems.
In one channel, a movie was playing in audio format!
Two interesting ads I noticed: One ad advertised an apartment saying it’s not as expensive as 3 crores, but costs just 1.3 crores!! My, I don’t think I can buy a house Another ad was an ad for a mega serial for TV. Talk about radio-TV collaboration!
One channel played an interview with a movie star which was actually a plug for his latest movie. But another channel played an interview with four artists who came on a cultural exchange to paint the walls of Chennai.
There were a couple of radio channels that played English songs. But not even one channel played Hindi songs!! Why??
Good to listen to old/familiar/forgotten songs once again.
One person who ‘called-in’ started singing in a pathetic voice. Too funny!!
One channel (AIR?) was broadcasting news in short.
Actually, I was flipping through the radio channels to discover at least one new/good song. I did find this song from Billa 2. It was good, not great. But I am inspired to listen more.
Also, just one hour of listening resulted in so much adventures!

So have you been listening to radio channels in your place recently? What are your observations? If you’ve not been listening, you should try – at least occasionally

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