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doberdevil t1_jdobql4 wrote

This describes radio for the last ... 4 decades? Longer? It's just gotten worse as a smaller number of companies own a larger share of the stations.

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Eat_Carbs_OD OP t1_jdocoyo wrote

Seems like it's gotten worse over the past several months.

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doberdevil t1_jdoe1eb wrote

Probably.

As others have posted, seems like there are more ads - I wonder if that has to do with there being more choices (satellite radio, streaming services) so radio needs to sell more ads cheaper since they're not reaching as many people.

I bet there is a huge chunk of the population that just streams from their phone and doesn't bother listening to the radio at all. I'd probably do this for the most part but my phone->car audio has barely tolerable sound quality.

EDIT: Yeah, try KEXP. I like a lot of their genre specific shows, they match what I typically listen to.

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Eat_Carbs_OD OP t1_jdoecva wrote

Or they're just trying to get as much money as they can.

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