Ya, but "IHeartMedia has implemented a "Guaranteed Human" policy...." so there you go. So what if the human is 5 states away!
Same v/o guy in Casper as in LA! "This report is brought to you by" or "This weather..." and on and on.
What I, as a listener, experience is the emptiness/hollowness of the medium.
There's no newscaster as they're piped in from Siberia, and the stories are things you saw 2 days ago, easily! Weather was done 12 hours ago, "this morning the fog will burn off" and that's played at 2pm. (Years ago, WGRD Grand Rapids,MI had 24 people in the newsroom! )

There's NO interaction, or very little.
Ancient history: you could call to request a song, pick up the Top30 from the front desk. (NOW the "new music"(Hit-Bound) is the same in Boise as in New York, all being decided by a man behind a curtain -Wizard of Oz reference-. There is NO individuality, no room for a mistake, or a hint of being human.)

There are NO Bus ads or Billboards, NO bumper stickers, NO promotion. Everything is on FB and that's the budget, or a trade-out. Not how much get you get vs how little can we pay?

I heard a quote from someone, "you walk into the studio and you're by yourself. Alone."
Radio where generations owned the stations have gone to bank ownership.
There's still good "radio" out there and we all have different tastes. The pie is very thinly sliced. There's many stations locally, plus the whole world, if you want it!
I've never ever been in radio, and love Top40 and 50s 60s 70s oldies. DX'ed this morning hearing XEW and XEABC Mexico City.
(Good Au conditions.) W Deportes 730, and Vox 760, both from Mexico City, with current hits! https://wradio.com.mx/ ads at :27, :57 and "Musica W Deportes" tween songs. Must have a US consultant! Yikes! Check this out! https://radio.garden/listen/w-deportes-730-am/C9yubf2t Plug in any city and go!

Amazing too, how the stations are much closer in Mexico vs here in US/Canada. IE:730, 760....

I can't fawn after radio from 60 years ago. It was nice in its time. Things do evolve. A 2026 Ford isn't the 1966 Fairlane, the 5 cent stamp is now 78 cents. The 5 cent bag of chips is now 50 cents, and you get fewer chips! That's life. "Radio" is still there, though not as we knew or remembered it, I guess. Glad I'm as old as I am. A learning experience. "These are the good old days."

Now the satellite fed station has had dead air for easily 25 minutes! Nice! The Open Carriers are a great feature too.

"John from Wisconsin pukin' out the hits!" (and I can still hit the post, when songs come on. Oh yes!)