Try the C. Crane company. They specialize in all sorts of radio. We have purchased from them several times. Good products and excellent service.

https://www.ccrane.com/

You want to look at Sonos. They have several different options. Not cheap, but they offer the most seamless experience and access to the most streaming stations (you still need a subscription for most). And if you decide to add more speakers, it easily becomes a whole home audio system.

www.sonos.com

So +1 for either Sonos or Amazon Echo. A Sonos Play1 (which is all you need by a bed) will run $199 on Amazon. The Echo will run you $180 and an Echo Dot will cost you $50. With each step down in price that I listed, your audio quality will go down as well. Thus it kinda depends on what kind of fidelity you want. For all 3 devices you can connect a Tune In account which will get you local AM/FM radio station internet streams in your local market. You can also pull streams from out of town as well. For example, when I travel out of State for work, I can still listen live to my favorite Los Angeles, FM radio stations.

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I had no idea the technology involved subscriptions and complicated set up . I wanted to acknowledge that even though Im not going to act on the info at this time in my life.... I APPRECIATED RECEIVING IT.... as do Im sure all the other people out there reading for whom its useful & applicable information.

I apologize for previous sloppy writing and any misunderstandings that may have ensued.

Do you have iPhone? If so, download the "Tune In" app from the app store, create and account and find your stations. Then get any of 100 bluetooth or airplay speakers found on Amazon.com and stream your radio stations to that.

Anything you stream will cost you a monthly subscription-- anything. That includes the internet connection itself. 99% of all businesses in all industries are looking to employ the monthly model (referred to as RMR for "Recurring monthly Revenue" ) as their new way to make money. If you don't want to participate in that I suggest you start collecting as much physical media as you can (i.e., CDs, DVDs, etc) so you can still enjoy something. For now, AM/FM radio stations and OTA TV signals are still free. For now...

I currently stream several NPR radio stations from all over the country, and WFMT, a classical music station in Chicago. I am a supporting subscriber to four of these, but that's voluntary. I receiver their streams on my computer, my iPhone, and the network input on my Yamaha receiver. Yes, I do have to pay for the internet at home and for my cellular data, but I don't have to pay for any music subscription. I don't have a bedside radio such as what the OP wants and would like to get one. Maybe the Sonos Play 1 will work for me. I saw the Sonos line at Best Buy, but the sales personnel didn't seem to know much about it.

Right so you still paying a monthly for streaming. In your case you are paying less than most, but you are still paying. I think "Current Resident" was trying to avoid all monthly payments, which isn't possible now if he wants to consume content that he doesn't outright own as physical media. We are Sonos Direct Dealers and as such know lot about the product. What would you like to know?

Yes, it is possible to listen to content for free on the Sonos if you don't own it. For "Current Resident" it would be through TuneIn, which plays local and distant radio stations, along with podcasts.

I think "Current Resident" didn't want to bother with Sonos as I suggested using Tune In in an earlier post and he wasn't interested. I think he probably needs to get a Tune In account regardless, but maybe just play it through his computer speakers which he mentioned in an earlier post.

Try using an old iPhone; it can be out of contract to use WiFi.

Totally agree with you mtvhike. If one has already a internet connection than there are a lot of free streaming options. I was streaming some years ago on my phone and on the laptop and I use just VLC (it really plays anything and even streams...simple but powerful). anyways, I was just looking on the webpages of the radio stations I was interested and downloaded the streaming link and saved it in VLC. thats it and it works great.