[WalterBright]

The playlists of nearly all radio stations are far too short for me. I finally just quit listening to the radio.

Comcast has a bunch of channels with various music categories. They all repeat after about 2 days. So much for that.

With all the zillions of songs available, I don't get why they do that.

[SquirrelOnFire]

You've got to find the rare radio stations with public support and human djs. kexp.org is a great one based out of Seattle with a wild variety of shows and decades of history. Are all the shows to my taste? No. Have I ever heard something being played that was total crap? Honestly, maybe? Because there's genres I don't know enough to gaugue quality, but I haven't twigged to it.

[runarberg]

The dial on my receiver is permanently on 90.3 FM. Such a good radio station. I remember one fun drive a couple of years back was themed around “Don‘t let the robots win”[1]. Perhaps it is already time to re-use that theme.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/KEXP/comments/1459ahb/dont_let_the_...

[butlike]

The major radio stations are ads. You have the actual ads for cars/lawyers, then the pop music which is ads for the marketable personality. IF the radio station is popular and caters to an older crowd, it will play the hits of that generation to keep listeners glued for the actual car/lawyer ads.

It's the same concept as interviews with stars of the film before the film drops. You watch an ad before the interview, then you watch the interview, which is itself an ad of softball questions for the movie. You then turn into late night television, which in turn is also an ad with ads (for whichever celebrity wants to come on and rep their new project).

[zx8080]

Money probably? That's the number of song licensed to maximize profit without hurting 80% listeners.

[BLKNSLVR]

My local: https://threedradio.com/

("My" meaning local to me, not that it belongs to me)

[tzs]

Have you tried KING 98.1? They seem to have a vast playlist.