A decent alternative? Just tune in KUMD 103.3 fm.  Chris Harwood's "Soul Village" (Fridays, 5pm) is a great listen every week. At 11 pm, the syndicated Kellar's Cellar serves up just about everything I want to hear. Lots of great music programming, all day, just about every day.

WELY! End of the road radio.

I think there should actually be 40 top 40 stations.  That way they can all pick one song and play it constantly.  If I want to hear what is currently #26 on the charts, I know which station to pick.  It brings me back to the time that, just before a format change, one of the radio stations played nothing but "Rainbow Connection" for a week straight.

Playing a single song constantly on a weekend before a format change is an old, stale radio gimmick.  It's meant to get people talking and tuning in to see what will happen when the change goes through.  I remember in the mid-nineties being in the twin cities and listening to (and enjoying at the time one of the X rock stations and all of a sudden hearing REM's "...End of the World...".  Turned out it was a format change to what I think ended up being The Rev.

I want a few decent rock stations.  One that plays the classic blues, one that plays all early 1950s rock&roll, one that plays 1960s rock, one that plays 1970s porn music, and one that plays 1990s alternative.  Lastly I want a station that plays the best rock of the last 10 years....White Stripes, Vines, Strokes, Jet, Mars, Arctic Monkeys, Raconteurs, Queens, Muse, and all that stuff.  Danny, that was the end of the Alternative station The Edge that played REM for days straight.  The best format change I remember was when a station switched and they played days of comedy shorts.  I wish there was a station like that!  Lots of "Shaving Cream" and other funny songs.

Are there any new songs?  I've been listening to NU 92 today from 7:30am to 2 pm and have heard the same song from Pink 3 times.  Can't you find some new artists?

So it goes with corporate radio.