Back in the day I ran a small Shout cast server. Once had around 40 listeners. It made teenage me happy. In a broken voice, between tracks, I'd pretend to be a radio guy on my cheap desktop microphone (those white/grey/cream sticks, you know the ones I'm sure).
"Yo yo yo, that was a SICK beat, let's get on down to some more funky tunes!!!"

Fun memories.

...are the "few dozen" songs the top 40...?

I mean it's in the name of the ststion type. There are only 40 songs.

Kexp.org

40 is a few dozen.

IDK who guy is

This is why radio died. Rock stations playing Aerosmith, guns and roses and ac/DC on repeat. Instead of 5 minutes of something new. By 2010 most if us were leaving fm for pre-downloaded music, 2015 apps were widely available, by 2020, what even was radio

They walked to their own Graves and pulled the trigger

Same with classic rock stations, I swear to fucking god Boston's 100.7 plays Turn the Page by Bob Seger or Metallica's cover daily at like 7:45am. That's usually followed by one of 3 AC/DC songs then 10-15 minutes of commercials since iHeartRadio bought them a while ago.

As annoying as this is, it’s not really the radio station’s fault. Broadcast licenses for songs are cartoonishly expensive, so most stations can only afford to hold so many at a time.

So like most problems in the music industry, it’s due to the greed of the record companies.

On a less related note, I did not expect to see this meme format in 2025. Not that I mind tho ^^

Sold out to iHeartradio / Clear Media / Audacy

Money for nothing and the chicks for free..

They brought an iHeartradio station to Baltimore. The mix was fun, lots of famous 80's and 90's.

I wrote some code to scrape their "now playing". The entire catalog was just over 600 hundred songs. 600 Unique songs in a year.

The top rock station plays more unique songs than that in a week

Soma.fm forever

We have a radio station in my home town that used to call itself "Mix 100" (their frequency was 100.1). I figured it was because they played the same 100 songs and each of the songs they played were ones I'd heard 100 times before.

Seems like half the music on the radio nowadays sounds bored, depressed, or is a rehash/cover of an already existing song that's also half-baked.

Don't get me started on XM/Sirius/whatever

Most stations, despite a live DJ (I think), play the same 40-50 songs all day everyday, often on the same timetable. So if you heard say Free Bird at 2pm, you'll hear it the following day at the same time within 20ish min. And I'd imagine every station is like this.

It came free in my truck for a year, sweet. The only reason I kept it was because I was able to keep swinging the $6/month thing, and I really only want to tune into the Dead channel whenever I please, and only because Lemieux has an excellent rotation of live shows. But even they play the same studio cuts at the same time of day. If it weren't for the fact that I'm still rebuilding my music server, I'd likely have dropped them, but still, any mainstream radio service is pretty much poopy.

Lmao never seen Dillon in a meme like this, especially the vid being like a decade old now, good stuff.

Love that song

Stupid 106.5 in Sydney. Fuck me, so bloody sick of Sabrina Cuntpunters shitty songs multiple times a day, each day.

If anyone's is interested in a stream of modern rock that is devoted to new music, I can introduce you to the dj before he does a stream. I spoke with Alan Cross (From the Ongoing History of rock and roll) via email briefly about this DJ and Alan already knew who he was and there is video interview between the two of them as well

If interested send me a message, don't want to promote a link to something I support through patreon without permission, but I'm happy to share to anyone that's interested.

Last week was his first live show in a long time, and I'm glad he has decided to continue.

3 dozen = 36.

If it's a top 40 station, that's a pretty good selection of the top.

Runs a top 40 station

Hasn't updated their song library since 2010

Now where is the bottom 40 million station?

This has me thinking of the Rock FM Radio Station meme.

Not every song is good ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Something tells me it's Alzheimer's stimulation kinda shit

Regulars can guess the time of day by the minute by looking at the sun or moon to get an approximate time and refine it by which of the songs is playing at the moment.

I'M WAKING UP