I kid you not, back in the early 2000s when I worked a factory job and started my shift at 5am, I would listen to the local rock station before their shock jock type morning show started at 6. This being considered the overnight shift, there were about three songs, a station bumper, then 10+ minutes of commercials. One of the commercials, that was played multiple times during the same breaks was an ad for a Viagra knockoff, that promised to yes, turn you into a sexual tyrannosaurus rex.
And they repeated the phone number for free samples about 5 or 6 times during the end of the commercial.
At the time I had the original Delphi SkyFi PNP receiver for home use, I purchased the bowtie boombox for it, but being in a large metal plant, there was nowhere I could place it to get a signal in my work area. I ran the antenna out a garage bay where I could get a somewhat usable signal from the terrestrial repeaters when I pointed the antenna towards the city, but it was not reliable enough to use it on a regular basis so I returned the boombox.
A few years later, when I worked at the same place, but switched to night shift, I had the good ole’ Roady XT in my car with the super strong FM modulator that I was supposed to put those stupid ferrite cores on. There were a few hours overlap between first shift and second shift, every day after all the first shifters were gone, I’d pull my car closer to the building, and tune the old timey radio to 106.9, the frequency I would modulate the Road XT to and rock out to Squizz all night long, then pop out to my car a few minutes before 11 and switch over to 152 for the John and Jeff Show.
Back to present day, to rely on internet streaming isn’t good enough for me. I’m on T-Mobile with unlimited* data on two phones, so I don’t care about data usage. As a longtime Sprint, and now T-Mobile customer, I’ve never had to worry about data caps and routinely use 12-20 GB per month. It’s just T-Mobiles coverage is not reliable enough to be able to stream interruption free when driving and changing channels would be a PITA not to mention dangerous while driving. At work, it’s just my boss and I in the same office, my boss is one who needs complete silence when working, when he is out of the office, or on vacation, I tend to stream all day long on my phone. At home, if I streaming SiriusXM, I usually use the Windows 10 app on my main PC, which has a 300 watt speaker system connected to it, I’ll use streaming on the Echo occasionally if I just want background noise. My home theater receiver has a built in Sirius tuner, so I will use that most of the time for home listening. Outside doing yard work or whatever I stream on my phone and pair it to my Big Jambox bluetooth speaker.
