It is really sad. Unfortunately, even after increasing the ad load lots of people keep tuning so.
So even the market is telling them it's OK to broadcast more ads.
That is how the performers make money. The larger the audience i.e. the more popular the show, the more desirable it is for advertisers. The larger the audience the costlier the minutes for advertisers. That increases the income of the performers and the producers, the stations, etc. That’s how the market works. The alternative is a PBS setup.
We listen a lot - every day - to Salem radio which features the likes of Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt, Mike Gallagher, Dennis Miller, etc.
While some ads have been helpful (AMAC), just hearing all the ads so often during an hour and interrupting one’s train of thought, can be crazy making. They can be such an intrusion on one’s sensabilities.
Occasionally the radio goes OFF - in anger - when one or both of us can’t take it any more.
Sometimes we use the Bose, which has a remote, so can lower the sound when ads comes on. But all the other radio locations in our house do not have this ability. rrrrrrrr
I did some "consumer research" - I counted pages devoted to articles (ones that did NOT mention a product by name, for instance in a recipe) and pages, partial pages, etc. devoted to commercial ads.
Guess which category came up in the majority? You're right if you said those devoted to commercial ads.
I determined that I could get ads for FREE - TV, radio and flyers of junk mail in my mail box rather than pay money to read advertisements for products.
This reminds me of all of the wearable ads passing themselves off as clothing (I refuse to purchase anything that has names or logos visible as most cost more than the items without the manufacturer names or logos.)