and it plays at work from the loudspeaker all day. Either pop shit that plays the same songs over and over or a classic rock station that plays shit over and over. They pander to a base of people that will listen to shit songs over and over and we have to suffer

how can I get them to play some fuckin variety and decent songs?

request a song?

Radio sucks in most places because they're mostly corporate owned. The only good stations I've come across are university stations, and they only play good shit half of the time.

It has to do with advertising and getting the largest audience in the market. So they play the stuff that the most people want to hear. The larger the audience, the more they can charge advertisers for time, because more people will hear the spots.

Run http://ckua.com/ off the net & into those speakers.

COLLEGE RADIO!
or any listener supported community sponsored radio station, works on donation only.
The local station here is all i would ever listen to on the radio, the uni they broadcast from has a pretty awesome staff and schedule. Never know what you might hear, plus no commercials and npr news. Nice to hear jazz in the afternoon, old skool techno at night, ambient on the weekends, classical in the mornings, and a weekly reggae show all on one station. :)

if ya dont have any good college stations around, online radio would be the best bet.

http://www.wpkn.org/

i enjoy the christian chatterbots that roam the am airwaves of country intervals, and the local mattress salesman from sellsale.dot