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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it (lemmy.sdf.org)
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[โ€“] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm very lucky to have an independent radio station in my area. It's run by a nearby college, but they let anyone take training to become a host.

They don't always play music I like (hell, they don't always even play music) but I'll deal with 30 minutes of buddhist chanting because the variety can't be beaten. Also, they have no ad breaks.

[โ€“] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Oh man, my independent station is wild sometimes. It swaps between a lot of genres, from punk to classical. They played an Earthbound video game cover once, even. My npr station is relatively fine too.

Corpos 100% ruin radio, though, and that's been true for a long time. Stations often get incentives to pay the same songs and that's only gotten worse with time. True across all popular genres, too.