Posted by Curious Heir on August 31, 2012 at 13:05:16:
"Believe it or not, Chicago used to be a great radio town. We invented the sitcom in the 1920s and the soap opera in the ’30s. We perfected Top
40 in the ’60s and progressive rock in the ’70s. We put the first CD on the air in the ’80s. Then came corporate consolidation and cost
cutting. Now, of course, radio sucks. Today there’s no reason to put up with predictable playlists, voice-tracked DJs and 20 minutes of
commercials an hour when you can download your own music and play it any time, anywhere you want." Read Feder's round-up of the still somewhat
live and local radio stations Chicago has -