For a while this afternoon, I have had WLS (94.7 FM, Chicago) streaming in the background. Like most stations, they replace a lot of the on-the-air content with stream-only content. They play a lot of the same inane stream ads over and over again making it hard to listen for more than an hour.

Lots of stations do the same grating substitutions. If they continue, there will continue to be a market for competitors with fewer or no ads. These burglar alarm, vitamin supplement, and hormone replacement ads are insulting to anyone with an IQ over room temperature.