Are morning commuters using iPhones to listen to NPR?

I use the NPR app rather than the radio because you get to pick what you play. All things considered at all times. Got a long drive? Listen too the last couple days. And at least NPR Gershwin payed for the advertising if I listen to it more rather than the crap radio station they play NPR on In GA

My "commute" often takes me to an area where one station has dropped out, and another isn't in receiving range. But listening on the NPR app gives me a continuous stream of the program without any faulty reception, chasing a new station up & down the dial, and so on.

I get good reception, better than than radio where I live. I listen to DC info while reading NPR articles. My iPad is portable and the sound is great.
What more could an old retired man want?
I love it!

For me, its my long commute. When you drive a long distance to your job everyday, you get tired of stations fading in and out. Why not use that data plan you've paid for and have non-interrupted, static free radio wherever you are.

This shouldn't be that hard for NPR media geniuses to figure out. If you listen to NPR on your FM radio, you have to be in your car at the EXACT times the show you want is on the air. I like to listen to Marketplace on the way home, but if I'm not in my car by 6PM, I miss most of the show. With streaming, you can listen whenever you want. Also you can't pause your radio when get out of the car to pump gas.

For me it allow me to sit on the porch where I have no radio, drink coffee, and listen to NPR BEFORE I get in the car.

Not having read the comments, I'll venture that a lot of people listening in their cars are traveling far enough to have to switch between NPR stations, which do not operate by the same schedules.

For instance, you may be cruising down the road, listening to the broadcast of today's "Talk Of The Nation" and you get to hear the whole thing.

Then your station starts to fade, and you look for another. You find one, and guess what's on the air? The beginning of the broadcast of TOTN that you just listened to.

Imagine the phone app works around that... I will be trying it on my next 6-hour trip throu two time zones and 4 different NPR stations.

I would turn the radio off if NPR was only thing on. Nothing political, I just don't like talk radio.

My commutes starts in an area with great reception of KQED, but then takes me thru an area with poor reception. Sometimes, if i am interested in the story that is on, i use the app to stay "tuned in".

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So NPR the oh so liberal broadcast network doen't even think of maybe people are ...using public transportation.

I don't listen to NPR so by your standards I'm an ass, if that is the criteria then I am PROUDlY an ass.