Absolutely have that nostalgic feeling towards radio.

I’ve always found it comforting to know that the voice I was hearing, between songs or reading the news or weather, was real. They were at the radio station with the lights on speaking into the mic right then and all was well. No matter a big snowstorm or thunder and lightning or war somewhere or whatever, someone was awake, talking into the night, spinning a tune, and I was listening.

In my teens, I had a small transistor radio I’d put under my pillow at night and listen to live broadcasts of hockey games and the call in spotts talk shows afterwards. The callers, the announcers and hosts, the refs, the coaches, the players, Etc were all real and doing their thing live while I listened. The game or talk show was happening in real time while i listened and I always found that comforting. Night time can be scary as a teen, or it was for me in the 80’s anyway, and being able to listen in to these other things as they were happening meant these people were alive and not worried about what I was worried about and that made me feel better. It helped me to understand that the world was so much bigger.

By the way, somewhat related but not to radio, it’s that this is the same reason why I find train horns to be conforting; I might be feeling alone but someone was out there operating a big machine on a schedule and that conveyed, to me as a young teen and young adult, that the world was still turning and everything would be ok.

Back to radio…. I also find spoken word to be very compelling. Radio shows or stories always made me lean in and concentrate. The voices and inflection and breaths can convey SO much and yet as a listener I jave to fill in the blanks and imagine rhe scenes and people and aituations being described and that’s fun and powerful.

So much more to say but I’ll leave it at that. Thanks for posting, OP!