Audacy

What used to be radio.com rebranded itself as Audacy earlier this year (and it's part of what was once was known as CBS Radio; aren't corporate takeovers and rebranding fun?), and I listen to KCBS news radio from the Bay Area in the mornings. Rather than just rebroadcasting the KCBS program, Audacy "local advertising from the advertisers of the nearest Audacy cluster of stations," according to Wikipedia. Sometimes that works; I've heard ads from a Carson City car dealer, for example. Sometimes I wonder exactly where they think I am, as I keep hearing ads for Volcano Harley, which appears to be a motorcycle dealership in the Vancouver WA area.

Another thing about the online radio feed is that when it doesn't have any ads, it plays public service announcements. That by itself isn't unusual, as many radio stations do that so they don't have "dead air" in their commercial breaks. But something about how Audacy interacts with KCBS means that they occasionally apparently cannot tell when KCBS has come out of the break, and they start playing the same one or two PSAs on a continuous loop, and the only way to get out of it is to reload the page. There is probably a reasonable technical reason for this, but it does get a bit annoying when I'm listening to it at a remove on a portable speaker and can't easily go to my computer to kick it out of the loop.