The EMF is the country’s fastest-growing radio chain and it's buying up all local radio stations — a longtime haven for new music, artistic outcasts, and political dialogue.

If it's not them then it's i heart radio or cumulus media compulsively buying radio stations.

I heart replaces them with super sterile 80s pop and easy listening

While cumulus replaces everything with sportsball

My greatest achievement is never once resorting to listening to the radio in my 20+ years of driving. CD disc man, then an MP3 CD player, then a 32MB MP3 player, then a 10GB MP3 player followed by a series of iPods and iPhones. Even millennials these days lambast the state of music, but I contend that there is more good music being put out every year, it’s just harder to find. Sometimes I find it, sometimes I don’t, but at least I’m not listening to the same 40 tracks on repeat every day. And at least I’m not listening to whatever is considered “classic rock” these days. Please comrades, if I ever tune into a classic rock station and say, “this is my jam”, just put me out of my misery.