iHeartRadio parent warns it may not survive another year

[Krigaren]

Even Sirius/XM stations play the same 20 or so songs all day, just with no commercials

Depending on the channel that's true, but satellite has the benefit of having a fuckton of stations to choose from. Shall I listen to Alt Nation? How about Octane? Naw, I'll go for Lithium. Well, maybe 90s on 9. Or hey, Hits 1 for a bit before they recycle the playlist. Now I wanna jam Classic Vinyl.

Choices choices!

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[KOMO1211]

did deliveries for about 5 years some year back. pretty much killed the radio for me. I listen to AM sports talk radio most the time now lol...

[Freese]

If radio stations actually played a better variety than their revolving playlists, it might not be dying. When I worked in South Florida, the station we were allowed to have on was guaranteed to recycle songs within a 2 hour time span, it was pretty much a sure thing you'd hear 2 different songs from Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and "current disposable hit artist X" within their rotation 2 hours. The classic rock station wasn't any better, which is sad because they should have a tremendous catalog of rock to pull from. In the car I'd either listen to the music on my phone or talk radio. I had Sirius for a while and it really wasn't any better, I was on a road trip and they played the same crap every day.

I think the counterargument is that by playing familiar playlists, stations will increase and/or maintain ratings. Evidently, the bankruptcy situation suggests otherwise, but that's the counterargument.