There was a time twenty years ago...when jazz, opera, and classical music made up fifty percent of their production and delivery....and simple shows like “Car-Talk” cover another thirty percent. Then they started getting used like hookers, hiring high-priced journalists after high-priced journalists, and then they tried to make their entire production news instead of unique music. That was the end of the NPR legend. They are simply a liberal mouth-piece today, with no connection to eighty percent of America. If you want jazz or folk music or classical....it won’t be on NPR.
“Car-Talk” was mostly Click-and-Clack, I used to get updates from an automotive newsletter outside Baltimore where we could pick up NPR and document all the bad advice they gave.
Typical libs, can’t find their butt with both hands.
Car Talk is the only show on NPR worth taking time to listen to. The only one that doesn’t spew liberal bias, those guys are actually pretty entertaining.
Several years ago the local NPR affiliate had a show on Saturday night called Lone Star Saturday night. The DJ played only music from Texas bands, with the occasional Lucinda Williams (Louisiana) thrown in. It was pretty good, but got replaced by Selected Shorts. I had to give them up at that point.
Probably on a college station, down at the lower end of the dial.
If you live where there are a lot of colleges, some college stations are for the students, some have been taken over by NPR programming, and some provide folk or jazz or classical for non-college audiences.
Sometimes the students are pretty ticked off about that, not being able to get airtime on their own college radio stations ...
They went from the alternative with NO commercials to one long commercial for worldwide liberalism.