There isn't much to listen to on Washington area radio-- the good stuff is gone or going--I am horrified at the direction that public radio stations are moving--not that I begrudge them corporate sponsorships, but they are absolutely selling everything down the river for the sake of those underwriting dollars(including the listenership)--

Many public radio stations actually had more listeners when they had community based, mostly volunteer staff(some even had good news departments!) but brought in "professional" staff, whose real priorities were to raise money that went to expand the salaries of "professional' staff--

Public radio programming can get to be the equivalent of a "vanity press"--programs without listeners, paid for, as a taz-write-off, by corporate sponsored foundations that see it as low-cost advertising to a more upscale demographic than they get on the "Adult Contemporary" stations--