You ever feel like the radio station...

[Pervertedneighbor]

...that you listen to in the car needs to flip the tape over?

I mean, to tell you the truth, I don't think radio stations should have playlists.  Each DJ should play what he feels like playing.

[Hades]

Long ago I used to do an awful lot of driving... and I really get your point.
These days I hardly ever listen to radio anymore.  I'm a big fan of shoutcast "radio" and spotify. 
Screw radio stations playing the same song 5 times a day

[JBRG]

I was a DJ on a volunteer manned radio station where we were our own programmers. We played what ever we liked and it was fun. We had the advantage of not having to worry about paying for anything. No paycheques to cut. No bills to pay. It worked well.

Unfortunately, there are very few radio stations like the one I was at. NPR radio stations rely on grants and donations to pay the bills. Commercial radio stations have to sell advertising in order to stay on the air. Their advertising rates are determined by how many listeners they have. The more listeners, the higher the rates. And you attract listeners by your programming, ie, playlists and to a certain extent, the on-air personalities.

Even the XM-Sirius radio stations have play lists. It keeps their costs down in that they record a program and replay it several times.

I'm lucky where I live because the radio market is so over saturated that if I don't like what one radio station is playing, I can quickly find something I like.

[Sensualtravler]

Clair de lune     most beautiful piece of music ever written

1812 overture

 Wagner -- Ride of the Valkyries

Grand Canyon Suite

Sabre Dance


and about anything country  

[MissBarbara]

I was a DJ on a volunteer manned radio station where we were our own programmers. We played what ever we liked and it was fun. We had the advantage of not having to worry about paying for anything. No paycheques to cut. No bills to pay. It worked well.

Unfortunately, there are very few radio stations like the one I was at. NPR radio stations rely on grants and donations to pay the bills. Commercial radio stations have to sell advertising in order to stay on the air. Their advertising rates are determined by how many listeners they have. The more listeners, the higher the rates. And you attract listeners by your programming, ie, playlists and to a certain extent, the on-air personalities.

Even the XM-Sirius radio stations have play lists. It keeps their costs down in that they record a program and replay it several times.

I'm lucky where I live because the radio market is so over saturated that if I don't like what one radio station is playing, I can quickly find something I like.

I completely agree with PN's point, but JBRG's explanation for why PN's observations are correct makes perfect sense.

And like JBRG, I live in an are where there are dozens and dozens of stations, so I'm not forced to listen to stations with active playlists of only 20-30 songs.

[_priapism]

I have 1600 songs on my phone, Pandora, and SiriusXM.

I’m listening to the Christmas station a bit this month, but that is the first time I’ve listened to a radio station in a year.

[Indian Babe]

As I said sometime back I've joined a radio station. After a few days my sup gave me 13,000 songs. Not albums, songs. And told me to create 2 hour play lists,  one per day.
And as she left the choice parameters open for me to decide, I'm having a blast!