I've lived all over the US, and even worked for a few months as a DJ for a Midwest radio station.
I have never heard a more embarrassing, incompetent, and annoying radio station than the only AM station for the two major towns around here.
1150 KQQQ
When I worked for a station, dead air was the mortal enemy and causing it was cause for termination. Anything longer than a few seconds was highly frowned upon.
KQQQ has it every single day, and usually multiple times every day. Yesterday, they kept forgetting to switch the satellite feed for the network news broadcast, so at the top of the hour, every hour, there was several minutes of dead air.
The two morning hosts are good guys, but completely incompetent. One is well into his 80's and often forgets to turn on his mic, or to use the cough button, etc. They have technical issues every day with sound bites not getting played, or mixed up, or more dead air, etc.
I've even sent them an email regarding an offensive promo line they use. They played it once before the Ben Shapiro show would start, and after I complained, they now play it several times throughout the show. It has a recording of a male voice saying, "He's young and he's smart, so how can he be a Conservative? You're listening to the Ben Shapiro Show". Really? Don't they realize that the vast majority of their audience is conservative, which is why they are listening to conservative talk radio? And they choose to call their listeners stupid?
But, they play the conservative talk shows I want to hear in the first part of the day, and the two hosts often have good insight into local news. So I try and tolerate them until the AM station out of Spokane starts Dennis Prager.
Of the other two stations, one is out of Lewiston, 50 miles away, and Spokane, 70 miles away. So, weather forecasts are useless, local news and alerts are useless, ads are for businesses I will likely never use.
So, I bite my lip and suffer along to the local idiots.
Anyone else have a local radio station that is nearly useless and incompetent?