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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.

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[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Wait you won’t even accept ads on the radio?

Like how you expect to fund a radio station without ads?

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Elting@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you can stream BBC Radio 3 (UK) that’s classical music with no ads.

[–] Elting@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

I like the local one and I like using my radio. Its like 1 minute of ad over the course of a day.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

college stations and other community radio

many are prohibited by charter from taking paid advertisements

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.