Do they still make a tv guide?.
Not in this country.
That list does cheat, there are like 4 things to do with pay phones. There are a few things that I think are gone or going that we just haven't noticed....
- Listening to a radio show, daily
- Listening to the radio on a timer as you go to sleep
- Pagers, other than doctors
- Calling a large corporation and get an actual human on the phone.
- Getting a real caring letter in the mail. (Basically it's all solicitation and bills, now.)
- Actually caring what interest rates are
- Music videos on TV
- Weekly murders in Cabot Cove, Maine
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Radio shows daily are HUGELY POPULAR. Talk radio.
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Yes, but I don't think people really gather around and tune-in specifically. If you are in the car, fine. If you are in the office, fine. Even TV, with PVRs, people care less about what time something will be on. It's become the background noise to our lives. The only radios that I own are the alarms in the rooms and the one in my car. If we had a blackout, I wouldn't have one that works.
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Eric Arthur Blair said:
Yes, but I don't think people really gather around and tune-in specifically. If you are in the car, fine. If you are in the office, fine. Even TV, with PVRs, people care less about what time something will be on. It's become the background noise to our lives. The only radios that I own are the alarms in the rooms and the one in my car. If we had a blackout, I wouldn't have one that works.
It has just changed. I am listening to Sirius radio right now.
We listen online, we have different methods.
As for the
old Walton's where they sit around on the caroet and wood chairs listening to a radio program, well...we have tv, and so on from there. TRIVIA: (PS Walton's mountain is 2 hours from us, in case anyone wants to visit! and Mayberry is south of an less than 2 hours)
BUT having said that, PLEASE SEE THIS BLOG ARTICLE (this is right here) and
it is nostalgic - please LISTEN it is pretty fun!:
http://blog.claibornehouse.net/2013/02/youve-gotta-hear-floyd-radio-show.html
and we won't forget the uber popular
A Prairie Home Companion
and all the many NPR programs that many listen too as well, daily.
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