I used to think it was really hard to find good stuff to listen to on the radio, so I listened more to...cassette tapes :-p (no, really). Then, years later when I was working (and listening to CDs), I'd have to listen to the radio while commuting and realize there still wasn't anything good on air!

Odd radio story - I don't know if this is/was ever "done" here, but back home some people would strike up friendships with the DJs and have long phone conversations with them, sometimes while said DJ was working. (In Filipino slang, they became "phone pals.") A friend from school used to do that when we were in the fifth grade or so, and looong after that, I heard an on-air caller (who entered a contest or something) ask a DJ if she could continue talking to him off the air o_O