Your local radio station might just be one of those brand x type duds the local people recognize as such, who cruise around at night in the company car, calling it their free ticket to ride.
It is the reason we keep WFWG tuned in. Only the best quality is found there in terms of people and music; where the 80s means 80s music, not age, not weather, just like the 70s means 70s music, not the weather or the age of an old heater that died long long ago.