>>But never mind, I got that for free already. On weekends, there are periods of silence, followed by "sorry about technical difficulties", or shows run at wrong times, or the pre-recorded announcements for the next two hours of music being played in a batch, followed by a batch of music (nobody bothered to actually distribute them? - happened in the local branch here), or two soundtracks (say, news and a comment) being played at the same time... if they're running weekends on autopilot, I'm still not giving a dime.
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>That doesn't mean there are never technical difficulties, but unless you honestly feel that the technical world has now reached the state of perfection, you just have to accept them as part of life.

No, it means they're collecting more money every year (minimal pledge used to be $35 few years ago, now it's what, $45 or $65) and yet there's not even a technician on duty in the local studio, or at least one person who would have to be on call and actually listen to their own broadcast and fire up their laptop and fix the bloody playlist by remote connection. But no, they're cheapskates - "we aren't paying anybody any extra dime to work on weekends".