I stopped listening to radio, and this is why:
They promise to play a good track to get you on the hook,
then they play a whole load of annoying adverts.
Then they have a news report. It's rare that anything interesting has happened.
then some more adverts,
then a weather report, which says it's raining at the moment. I can see that out the window.
Then more adverts,
Then a crap cover version by a crap artist of an old song that was crap the first time.
Then more adverts
then traffic report that says there's unavoidable congestion in the all the same places as it is every day.
Then more adverts
Then some moronic DJ who thinks he's funny chatting on and on and on and on inanely.
Then more adverts
Then a competition where idiots can phone in and answer trivia questions.
Then more adverts
Finally, if you listen long enough, they'll play the good track. But the DJ will talk over the first 30 seconds of it and then turn it off halfway through just as it gets to the most awesome bit.
Then a whole load of self-congratulation about what a great radio station they are and how much music they play.
Then the whole cycle repeats again until false.
Life is too short to put up with that. Nowadays I just find I like on the internet, buy it, put it on a USB stick and listen to that instead. It's like radio, but with all the annoying shit removed.
I have no problem with them turning off FM, but please could they turn off DAB too.