No More New Social Media...Add What You Would Go Back To
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From 1996 on, sure, with the available music. Pre-1996, though, there was a lot of variety, local stations would be involved in the local music scene, and DJs would get to play whatever they felt like, or people wanted, during non-prime hours, and even mix up the regular playlists a bit. Deregulation brought it back to the old Payola system, just slightly more complicated.
I grew up back in the time when a DJ would actually bring an armful of records from his own collection to play on the air. There was no such thing as country stations or pop stations. Every station was like TV in that they had different shows at different times throughout the broadcast day. They would have farm news in the morning. In the evening, they might play an hour of country music or a couple of hours of pop like Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee, and then end the day with relaxing easy listening music to help you sleep. There were even some of the old time radio shows still on the air until I was in 1st or 2nd grade, such as "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar." Look that one up on Archive for a fun detective show.
On the other hand, because that type of radio is gone, I have my 1,000,000+ MP3 files of every kind of music, old time radio shows, talk shows, and more that I can play any time. My desktop computer is connected to my good stereo with huge speakers. It's great.