I say exactly the same thing. I have S/XM in the car and if a DJ is going on about something I could care less about, I'll say, "I don't pay you to talk... " and change the station. Those stations that play commercials, (news, comedy, sports, etc), I'll flip the moment an ad starts. I just can't take listening to commercials, which is why I rarely dip into our local terrestrial stations these days, and if I do for more than a few minutes, it's usually because I want to listen to WRCJ at night for their jazz programming.Realist wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 5:55 pmProblem you have is that you have a handful of corporations that own the majority of the radio stations currently. You pretty much have the same 500-600 song playlist with the current hits being played every 3.5-4 hours just about everywhere. Only thing different is the imaging and call letters.
Terrestrial radio is for the most part boring. My tolerance for commercials is low. Even with me having SXM, my favorite saying is “shut up and play music” when a self important DJ babbles on and on. I really don’t care what they have to say most of the time
If I want to stream anything while in the car, it's still a clunky process of pulling up an app, finding a playlist or album and then it's not a simple matter of a quick button push if I decide I want to listen to something else in either that app or another one. Talk about distracted driving.
Once apps can be better integrated into car radio systems to allow for setting presets tied to specific apps and channels, then streaming will truely put the dagger into the heart of terrestrial radio.