radio reception antennae...boosters?

We want to use an antena for radio reception.

The set up now is a receiver, pretty good speakers and turntable, dvd player, cassette player...but we both miss a particular radio station out of Little Rock...KABF.  
It plays a broad range of music and has discussions we enjoy.  That station along with NPR would make us happy!
They both 'stream' of course but we do not.

I once read that some of those nearby frequencies had been bought up by other stations deliberately to interfere but I think that's a cider press discussion 🫤

We can get KABF in the car sometimes here in town but not in the house so have been looking into antennae...maybe in the attic or even a pole in the yard?

any advice?
experience with any device to boost signal?

When I got my new to me car it got all kinds of radio stations.

When I changed the title that went away.

It had Sirius Radio:

https://www.siriusxm.com/plans

I have no experience with an antenna.

my husband's shop is in a radio/phone "black hole" for some reason, despite being in an urban area and there being towers all over the place (they are on the flight path of a regional airport and I suspect that's something to do with it).

They have a plain old electrical wire strung under the ridge of the garage roof (metal structure) that they've linked into the radio antenna wire, without it they can't get any radio whatsoever.
I have also read that LED lights can interfere with radio signal. Don't know about where you live, but our city recently switched all the street lights from halogens or sodiums or whatever to LEDs!

Thanks for the radio recommendation- I love listening to regional public radio and they have some shows that look great (a fix-it show!! something to fill that "Car Talk"-shaped hole in my heart....)

I would start with a simple wire maybe 6 ft long.   Stores do sell T antenna pretty cheap.  P…$7 on Amazon.   Do make sure you know how to hook the antenna to your radio before you buy.  On the flip side, I know someone who made a 40 ft diameter spider web antenna.

I grew up in a valley, somewhere with 3 clear-ish radio stations, and one station I WANTED to listen to that was just barely out of range - in the car, it dropped out of range maybe 3-5 km from home.

I found moving my radio around my bedroom, and then experimenting with a long wire off the antenae, made a big difference. My radio came with a 6 ft wire, but i extended it by twisting on another wire. If i recall, the wavelength of a radiowave is about 1 m. If the antennae wire end moved even 6" from "optimal" i'd lose the signal. I'd have to give a 1/4 turn of the dial, depending on the time of day. I have had better luck with analog radios than digital, with the ability to do tiny microadjustments. I could get my chosen station about 50% of the time. Evening was of course better, too. There were a few other marginal stations i learned to get by moving my antenae to different spots in the room.

Do you have an existing metal structure anywhere? I'd probably experiment with a wire antennae, and attaching it to things like metal bedposts, metal pipes etc.

Off track, but I used to live 2 km from a cold-war relict, former CBC/RadioCanada shortwave station.
We got CBC International on old copper wired telephones as a background,  and some people had it coming out of their copper plumbed sinks.
No lie.

A long wire antenna is the answer you're looking for. Get it as high up as reasonably possible and move it around until you find the best direction.

Howdy,
What Larry said.
I have used old TV antenna wire. It's that flat 2 strand. I twist the 2 wire together and there is an antenna terminal on the back of my receiver, I have been able to string it up inside and find the best recption point/place. A metal roof may give you some interference, and I have also put the wire out a window and up a long pole to get better reception. I have always been able to figure something out. My brother, who is a cb/ham radio nut, showed me this years ago when we were just teenagers and trying to get better radio in Fresno, CA, and wanting SF Rock stations.
Before you buy anything, remember, when the antenna was broke on your car, you could always use a metal coat hanger!

thanks everyone!
going to try the long wire next.

I have a fairly large roll of speaker cord (yardsale) so might try it first.

The local hardware store used to sell electric cord by the foot pretty cheap so will check that out also.

Our house has a metal roof so maybe the trick is to get the cord outside directed towards Little Rock 🤔