There's not a lot really new here, but the article argues that as long as seniors are still listening to the radio - comfortable to them as an old shoe - the medium won't die. But what happens when they're no longer here to listen?

With past tech like Walkmans, cassettes, LPs and more now becoming popular with curious youth, will they ever glom onto grandma's old kitchen radio? And will there be anything left to listen to if they do? 

This story reminds me of one I've heard from so may people here - how their parents had their radio on top of the fridge, permanently tuned to the old CFRB. Times have changed but those radios still work. Will they be a lost curiosity or a retro prize?

Either way, this is a nice bit of nostalgia for a day we may never see again.

"In a small kitchen outside Dayton, Ohio, a 74-year-old retiree flips on the same clock radio every morning at six sharp. It's been sitting on that counter since 1988, tuned to the same AM station it's always been tuned to, and it comes on before the coffee pot even gets filled. She's replaced the coffee maker three times since then. The radio has never needed replacing.
 
Ask her why and she'll shrug. The voice on the other end reads the local weather, runs through the school lunch menu, and mentions who's celebrating an anniversary that week. It's not really about the music. It's about starting the day with something familiar before the rest of the world gets a chance to interrupt."

The radio habit older folks never really gave up