On 3/6/2011 7:41 PM, Brenda Ann wrote:

By far most stations have perhaps, at best, a morning and evening "drive
time" program. Other than that, the only local content seems to be
commercials. I can't say that I've heard a newscast on a (non-news/talk)
commercial station in many years. Even our AFN stations have dropped all
local content except for emergency command information. And figure that
the FM band is starting to get really crowded with sports/talk/religious
stations... and who needs to hear Rush, Jim Rome and sanctimonious self
righteous preachers in digital?

A lot of public radio stations have gone all news/commentary/talk on
analog/HD1 and moved music to HD2, often classical and jazz. It doesn't
make sense from an audio standpoint to have the music on HD2 and talk on
analog/HD1, but the market for news/commentary/talk has expanded as
listeners have switched to other ways of listening to music content. If
everyone had an HD receiver then they'd be more likely to swap where
talk and music reside.