Answer the following questions in the comments section. There’s no time limit, but taking more than 10 minutes to answer these questions is a clear sign of insanity.
- When picking up a rental car in a different city, do you:
- Tune in a local radio station
- Find an auxiliary jack to plug in your MP3 player
- Check for Sirius XM radio, and if it exists, choose that
- Hope someone left a decent CD / tape in the CD / tape player and leave it to chance
- The power just went out in your home. Do you:
- Tune in the local news radio station
- Head outside to ask your neighbors if they know what’s going on
- Fire up a computer to see what might happening
- Use a another form of radio to determine what is going on (HAM / Shortwave / Police Scanner
- I mostly listen to commercial radio:
- To be informed about local or national news
- To be informed about sporting events
- To find interesting music
- Because I forgot to bring a CD / music player
- I think commercial radio (check all that apply):
- Is the best way to stay informed about local news and events
- Is essential for emergency situations
- Provides an excellent source of new and interesting music
- Is essential for my daily routine
- Assume your car’s radio suddenly stopped functioning for some reason (broken, or a backward-incompatible switch to a different broadcasting method). What’s the most likely course of action you would take? (Please select one):
- Replace or upgrade the radio with a new radio as soon as possible
- Purchase a new vehicle, making sure the new vehicle’s radio uses the new standard
- Purchase a new vehicle, and if it has the newer standard radio, that’s fine
- Find alternate means to listen to programming in the car
- No action would be taken
- Name your favorite radio station or radio stations in your area:
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Here’s my answers:
1: b
2: a
3: d
4: b
5: d
6: WRCJ, WUOM, and WDET, in that order.
1. a
2. c
3. b
4. ugh, none of the above
5. d
6. WUOM
1. b
2. c
3. d
4. b
5. d
6. None?
Just to clarify, I really do not listen to the radio. I get most of my information via either audio or text RSS feeds.
1:a
2:a
3:a
4:None of the above
5:d
6: WRIF,whatever plays NPR, WRCJ
1 B then A
2 B (C after 30 mins or more)
3 D
4 None of the above.
5 D (Aux in)
6 Rock Radio or XFM (or whatever they’ve renamed themselves to in the last 6 months)
1: A
2: Depends on how long the power is out. Probably A and at some point, B
3: A, C
4: A, B, D
5: D (listen on my BlackBerry), then A when I get around to it.
– Marcel
1 -> a, then c, then b
2 -> e: use my phone to serach the interwebs
3 -> f: because it’s there and they have traffic. When possible, I prefer public radio.
4 -> e: none of the above, I listen to public radio.
5 -> a, then d, then e
6 -> haven’t found anything good in Tucson yet, still lsitening to Milwaukee station : http://www.radiomilwaukee.org/
Radio? What’s that?
1.b
2.c
3.d (purely theoretical)
4. none of the above
5.d
6. WRCJ (my clock radio that gets me up in the morning)
1) b. Find an auxiliary jack to plug in your MP3 player
2) a. Tune in the local news radio station
3) b. To be informed about sporting events
4) b. Is essential for emergency situations
5) e. (Assuming it was just the receiver that was dead, and the AUX input still worked,
otherwisxe it would be [a.])
6) 97.1 Sports Blather.
1. I don’t rent cars often, but when/if I do, the first thing I’ll do is figure out their local NPR station, so a.
2. I’d fire up a computer or my mobile phone, so c. The radio never says anything about what’s actually going on. Only sometimes does NPR have news like that.
3. None of the above. I never listen to commercial radio, and if I find myself in a situation in which I have to, I’ll generally complain or try to switch the station to NPR.
4. Commercial radio sucks. NPR all the way.
5. a or b, but I wouldn’t buy a new car JUST for a radio.
6. 101.9 WDET, 91.7/91.1 MI Radio, WUCX 90.1 (in Saginaw/Bay City/Midland), WKAR (in Lansing)
Yeah, I’m an NPR addict. I hate commercial radio with a passion, partly because of the commercials (40 minutes of commercials to 20 minutes of music), and partly because the music they play is crap.
1) a
2) none of the above
3) c
4) d (and that’s kind of iffy)
5) Funny you should ask. Somebody stole the faceplate off my radio quite some time ago. My corrective action was to plug headphones into my Android phone and listen to Pandora instead. When I finally do replace my radio, I will make sure it accepts aux input so I can continue listening to Pandora.
6) Doug FM and The River are my favorites because they will actually play music during the morning commute. I also listen frequently to 96.3 and 89X. Stations which do asinine things such as start playing xmas music in November are banned from my radio dial.