I do. Most stations in my region are just crappy music and dumb call-in shows, but there’s still a few stations with quality programming. FM radio is where I get my news, where I listen to press conferences, old-school audio theatre and (surprisingly) where I get new music recommendations. Hard to believe that modern streaming platforms’ algorithms can be outperformed by traditional media.
Wait you won’t even accept ads on the radio?
Like how you expect to fund a radio station without ads?
Taxes.
So then you what? Have one radio station in the country? Or do you want to tax more and more to fund all these new stations.
Weird hill to die on and I’m confused honestly.
You’e never heard of CBC or BBC? Weird flex to be this cluless of the world outside your own sorry excuse of a country.
Why so aggressive dude.
Obviously I’ve heard of the BBC it’s from my country lol. It would be a shit world if all I had was the BBC stations.
Local classical station only runs the ads stuck to the NPR news segments. If you run a good station, people in the community will donate to you. Does mean you get a couple weeks out of the year where they do a lot of begging.
If you can stream BBC Radio 3 (UK) that’s classical music with no ads.
I like the local one and I like using my radio. Its like 1 minute of ad over the course of a day.
college stations and other community radio
many are prohibited by charter from taking paid advertisements
NPR
Yeah we have BBC in the UK which I assume is the same as NPR (man I hate that I know so may American terms 😂) , but I want a bit of variety as Classic FM plays more popular songs more often and happy to hear ads to support them although the ads are a bit more high brow on classic FM than say Planet Rock.