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6 Music is much broader although I do think that, like John Peel, they play a lot of stuff because it's 'happening' rather than because it's actually any good (old fogey alert!)
i also like Planet Rock when I am in the mood and the specialist jazz and blues shows on Radio 2 but other than that it's news or classical for me with Spotify providing a 'radio' station that I can tune to my tastes
Radio 1 being the obvious choice but my local radio is just as frustrating music-wise.
I listen to 6Music now. They still have a playlist but it's lesser known stuff plus you get all sorts of music in between (not much 'pop'). It's a great mix but has much lower listener figures as a result and almost got shut down at one point. David Bowie helped keep them on air.
If you want a station that rarely repeats then try Radio Paradise.
I don't hear much Noel and Liam Gallagher on the stations I usually listen to - if I did I would probably change the channel - but I do hear the same selection of songs too much for long periods of time... worse with some stations than others, but usually a different narrow range, so I don't always listen to the same stations.
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To try and answer the OPs question - they haven't changed because their audience likes it that way. One benefit of radio is that someone else picks the songs and you don't have to do anything other than turn it on.
IIRC the listening figures for R6 are pretty tiny, I guess partly because it's DAB/ internet only but I'm fairly sure most people most of the time aren't interested in radio being challenging or even varied. I'm not saying that's a bad thing it's just about how people use music radio.
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For most people it's something in the background and if the choice of listening is left to someone else then it's one thing less they don't have to think about.
You and me were solid as Rock.
Only the BBC could have a station like that.
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I thought spotify would have forced some variety to keep listeners.
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