"Scott Dorsey" wrote

The problem with broadcast radio, though, isn't the delivery system, it's
the programming.

It's both the programming and the system, or the business model. The
non-comm business model seems to be working nicely, thank you, but the
commercial advertising-driven business model doesn't work well for an aging
population, though it worked just fine for us when we were 18 to 34. And
that's partly a matter of the technology and its inability to charge for
content. Thus, "free" stations have to go after an ever-shrinking
marketplace and wind up imitating something else already out there.