/mu/ Anon listens to the radio

What would be playing at your granny's station is Metallica.

Yeah, cuz Granny is friggin metal.

This isn’t even an exaggeration.

Many years ago my station of choice when driving to work started running an advert for car safety. The sound effect was a loud blaring car horn and the sounds of screaming tires and a crash. The first, second, third time I heard it was instant jolt of panic and left me jittery. I switched stations after the third time.

Made a greentext out of your story (I took some creative liberties):
be me, driving to work still tired and half asleep
turn on radio loudly to wake me up a bit
suddenly hear the most horrific accident happening
Heartattack.jpg
take a second to compose myself
it was the fucking radio station
fully awake now
MFW
And this is part of why I don't listen to the radio while I drive. The other part is because I bought a cheap android stereo and I couldn't be fucked to buy the adapter to hook my antenna up to the stereo.
I guess being lazy is saving me from early morning drive radio jump-scares.
- Also radio is trash. My phone has like 13 hours of music on it and then YouTube music is practically endless, all I need is an FM transmitter or a tape deck because my car is from 2001.

I remember that one station that would advertise that they would play "uninterrupted music" during certain parts of the day. Only to then constantly interrupting it to tell us how they currenlty playing "uninterrupted music".

I think broadcasters are legally required to announce who's broadcasting, at some minimum interval. I know it affects ham radio - because slow-scan image transmissions worked around it by watermarking their callsign in the image. It'd also explain why Sirius XM does it so goddamn often when every receiver already has a screen.
Remember? That's like half the stations around. The other half don't do "uninterrupted" blocks

And that's the other reason I didn't listen to the radio.

I just noticed the headphones in the picture are Audeze LCD 2, I think. Expensive AF. In case anyone wanted to know that.

Audeze nuts in your mouth
- LCDeez nuts on your face
I had them for all of 5min before returning them- they're heavy af. My neck ain't built to sustain that kind of weight.
- Never tried them. The best headphones / "earspeakers" I ever tried were Stax. They blew me away. 2k $ tho. I have the much more reasonably priced Sennheiser HD 650 and AKG 712 pro with a FiiO DAC/AMP, which are both light and comfy.

Is this happening anywhere outside US? Because every American radio station, TV program, podcast etc. seems to be fiiled to the brim with these annoying sound effects, ads, and with obnoxious testoreone imbued speaker.

And I don't remember encountering it anywhere in Europe.

i dont remember many sound effects, but the testosterone imbued speaker is definitely in one of the big privately-owned rock radios in germany.
one thing that always annoyed me tho is when stations play snippets of really good music in their announcements or adverts, and then resume to playing the boring songs they played the last 3 hours.
- Don’t worry, that’s entirely on purpose to keep you listening.
I’ve never listened to much radio but I have a distinct memory of drinking in a bar in Dominican Republic and hearing air horn sfx throughout the night
I haven't listened to radio in >10 years, but back in the day they had a bunch of pre-recorded station ID messages like this in Germany, France and some African countries.
- Yeah I think every radio station uses these pre-recorded snippets, but they are usually rather mild and they serve to remind you that "yup, you're still listening to our radio btw, ok bye"
You'll get the odd station elsewhere that peppers in a sound effect or two, but this kind of faceroll on the soundboard is a uniquely American radio station thing in my experience
Yes. This happens in several other countries
It has been a long time since I listened to popular radio. I don't remember it being this annoying, but I think there were also sound effects (German radio).

Dammit!

Anon is totally gay, but the realness present in this text has broken my brain.

Also, that song is still fucking awesome.

I could fart in a rhythm and it would be more musical than the entire discography of imagine dragons.
Nah, tastes are different and since enjoyment of music is 100% subjective everyones opinion is equally valid.
- I'd like to hear the farts please
Imagine draggin' deez nuts on your face
- You couldn't handle my strongest ligma.
i love this live version in particular: https://youtu.be/ZQxuw9d2d28
- Best version ever!
- Amazing. That's the most creativity I have seen associated with them.
- Jesus, my sides are in orbit
Imagine dragons is so boring man.
Thats one of those cases of "Fuck I hate that band except that one song"
Like Burn it to the Ground by Nickelback.

Also, this announcement but first: "You're listening to another ad-free power-half-hour on KKKK", with that ad for the station repeated every 10 minutes.

This^ but narrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QmaC5E17_E

You still hear music on FM radio and not just ads the entire 20 minute car ride?

I live in a small college town in rural ohio. I listen to our local golden oldies radio station in my car because the songs are great, the ads are mostly local businesses, and i get local news from it. Although we also get a lot of Medishare scams, snake oil from supplement companies. But the ads are much better than the radio back when I lived in Houston 10 years ago. Even the Cleveland stations are pretty light on ads these days.
My main gripe with my local station is that the small conglomerate they are in all play Christmas songs at the same time in the winter. I understand the incentive behind synching up ads across your controlled stations, but why do they all insist on playing Christmas carols at the quarter hour across all channels? I fucking hate Christmas carols.
- Some industries go 'we have to do [blank] because that's the most popular thing' and some industries go 'we can't do [blank] because everyone else is doing [blank].' Inevitably the latter get infected with executives from the former.
Yes!
FM radio has to compete with (free) Spotify nowadays given that 4g coverage is pretty ubiquitous, at least where I live. This means they can't stuff too many ads in there.

Do Grannies listen to "imagine dragons - radioactive"?

... There are old Grannies and there are young Grannies.

one of the classic greentext's of our times

A classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glND6BbFZsE

Ah yes, but rock

Please let the old timey beard look die already. I'm not having sex with a dude that looks like that.

Old time beard look? You mean...trimmed beards?
Also, men don't have to confirm to your beauty standards. Maybe THEY like having old timey beards
what are you even talking about?
Implying anybody would shave their beard for a shot with YOU 🤣
Stubble? This is dense stubble on a cartoon chin/jaw.
LOL, so many men with beards crying in this thread.