• variouslegumes@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    A lot of posts in here complaining about shitty commercial radio. Do you all not have local radio stations? I love my local stations.

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        1 year ago

        The high school the next town over has the best music in the whole city. Unfortunately I live right on the edge of the broadcast range so it cuts out at home.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Local radio sucks.

      It’s nothing but ads. I’ve tried listening to a couple of them and the music selection is horrendous bracketed by lengthy ads. Bad to worse.

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      1 year ago

      I had read this in another thread, but radio was one of the first (if not first) media form to be entshittified. Decades before we even had a term for it.

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      1 year ago

      My comment pertains to the USA, but regardless of where you live, there is a very strong likelihood that your local commercial stations are owned by a company like iHeartRadio and much, if not all, of the content is syndicated.

      The only exception might be a local nonprofit radio station. You probably have at best one local station in this case, unless you live in a major city broadcast region. Keep in mind I mean one local station that plays music. A local NPR station is probably separate from this. Even most of NPR is syndicated, however.

      If you’re lucky, a local college might still have a radio station broadcasting over FM, but so many have moved online since you then don’t need an [expensive and volatile] FCC license.