i dont remember many sound effects, but the testosterone imbued speaker is definitely in one of the big privately-owned rock radios in germany.

one thing that always annoyed me tho is when stations play snippets of really good music in their announcements or adverts, and then resume to playing the boring songs they played the last 3 hours.

I haven't listened to radio in >10 years, but back in the day they had a bunch of pre-recorded station ID messages like this in Germany, France and some African countries.

You'll get the odd station elsewhere that peppers in a sound effect or two, but this kind of faceroll on the soundboard is a uniquely American radio station thing in my experience

I’ve never listened to much radio but I have a distinct memory of drinking in a bar in Dominican Republic and hearing air horn sfx throughout the night

Yes. This happens in several other countries

It has been a long time since I listened to popular radio. I don't remember it being this annoying, but I think there were also sound effects (German radio).

I think broadcasters are legally required to announce who's broadcasting, at some minimum interval. I know it affects ham radio - because slow-scan image transmissions worked around it by watermarking their callsign in the image. It'd also explain why Sirius XM does it so goddamn often when every receiver already has a screen.

Remember? That's like half the stations around. The other half don't do "uninterrupted" blocks

And this is part of why I don't listen to the radio while I drive. The other part is because I bought a cheap android stereo and I couldn't be fucked to buy the adapter to hook my antenna up to the stereo.
I guess being lazy is saving me from early morning drive radio jump-scares.

Made a greentext out of your story (I took some creative liberties):

be me, driving to work still tired and half asleep

turn on radio loudly to wake me up a bit

suddenly hear the most horrific accident happening

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take a second to compose myself

it was the fucking radio station

fully awake now

MFW

Yeah, cuz Granny is friggin metal.

Audeze nuts in your mouth

I had them for all of 5min before returning them- they're heavy af. My neck ain't built to sustain that kind of weight.

I live in a small college town in rural ohio. I listen to our local golden oldies radio station in my car because the songs are great, the ads are mostly local businesses, and i get local news from it. Although we also get a lot of Medishare scams, snake oil from supplement companies. But the ads are much better than the radio back when I lived in Houston 10 years ago. Even the Cleveland stations are pretty light on ads these days.

My main gripe with my local station is that the small conglomerate they are in all play Christmas songs at the same time in the winter. I understand the incentive behind synching up ads across your controlled stations, but why do they all insist on playing Christmas carols at the quarter hour across all channels? I fucking hate Christmas carols.

Yes!

FM radio has to compete with (free) Spotify nowadays given that 4g coverage is pretty ubiquitous, at least where I live. This means they can't stuff too many ads in there.

I could fart in a rhythm and it would be more musical than the entire discography of imagine dragons.

Nah, tastes are different and since enjoyment of music is 100% subjective everyones opinion is equally valid.

i love this live version in particular: https://youtu.be/ZQxuw9d2d28

Imagine draggin' deez nuts on your face

Imagine dragons is so boring man.

Thats one of those cases of "Fuck I hate that band except that one song"

Like Burn it to the Ground by Nickelback.