How Many Years Have You Listened to Odyssey?

[The Old Judge]

I know this topic may exist in the archives somewhere, but I want to know how long you all have been listening, just so I can know what kind of fans I'm dealing with here. I'll go first:

I've been a fan of Adventures in Odyssey for 3 1/2 years.

[Jonathan]

Heard my first episode in 1995, when I was 9. I didn't get my first album or hear any more than a few episodes until 2000. By the time 2003 rolled around I was very hooked.

So technically 18 years (yikes), though I've been a fan for 10-13.

[H Tide]

I'm not actually sure the exact number, but I think I started listening around 1995. So 18 years or so.

[American Eagle]

My brother found a single cassette tape of The Popsicle Kid at a local store. That episode first aired in 2001, so it must've been over a decade ago.

[Liz_Horton]

I started listening to the show when I was 5 in '98 and started my collection (albums 1-51 +selected special release albums) in 2000.

[Laurie]

I can't remember the year unfortunately but I do remember hearing a radio personality on my local Christian station talking about AIO. She said she listened and mentioned that their AM station aired AIO. So I started listening. The first episodes I heard were Recollections and Promises, Promises. I remember going to a Family Christian Store and buying Welcome to Odyssey my first album. I've been listening via the ToO and the albums ever since. My local stations stopped airing AIO and I can no longer get HisKids.

[Anna><>]

I know I listened to AIO when I was 7 years old. One of the first times I remember listening to it was when my parents cleaned the office where my dad worked, and I sat in the car and listened it on the radio every Sunday. I took out all the tapes from my library and listened to them quite regularly too, so I guess that would be around 13 years for me.

[Mrs Jason Whittaker]

My parents have been listening since Family Portraits (in fact, I remember listening to tapes of FP that they had recorded from the radio complete with commentary from Dr. Dobson) so I've been listening--willingly or not--all 26 years.

The first specific memory I have of listening to AIO was when I was 9ish--so 20 years ago (I know, I can't believe I'm that old, either). A group was trying to start a Christian radio station in my town, and my parents were talking to friends about it. I chimed in "And when the radio station starts airing, we can listen to Adventures in Odyssey at 6:05 instead of waiting until 7:30."

I got my first tapes when I won a contest on above mentioned radio station--Album 12 At Home and Abroad.

[WindowWasher]

I must have started listening around 1993. I really started getting into AIO around 1994-1995. I remember a friend of mine worked at a local christian station and he would give me all the AIO cassettes he played at the station. Through the years I've gotten my daughter listening (though not as big a fan as me) and now my 11 year old son is starting to enjoy them.

[Catspaw]

I've been listening for about 20 years. My parents saw AIO advertised in FOTF's magazine and ordered an album, and the rest is history! Every childhood Christmas and birthday was sure to bring more Odyssey my way, and then I started buying my own as an adult.

[jennifertwt]

best I can guess I started listening "accidentally" when I stumbled on Back to Bethlehem somewhere around 1992, based on where I was living at the time. I immediately went to the phone and ordered the cassettes. I worked in AWANA then and would listen on "off" nights as I missed being with the kids. Then I started listening whenever I was home and it was on, then I bought my first two albums on sale in 2002 when I had a job that left me often the only one in the office. Listening to Odyssey made me feel there were other people around. Then, I started listening every day as it came on during "dish" time after dinner. Then I was hooked and started collecting the albums slowly, then in more earnest when I new I was leaving the US. Idid not know if I would ever be able to listen again.

[EUCC]

Since Family Portraits and Odyssey USA So I believe 27 yrs.

[EMBEE]

My earliest memory of listening to Odyssey is hearing "Exit" on the radio when it first aired, so about ten or eleven years. I didn't really start getting into it and buying albums and stuff until about five years ago though.