Comment to 'magic', thanks for your recent posts, I've similar thoughts, about state of smart phones:
The radio station offers an APP, but I just (try) connecting for 'podcast' listening. But, HECK, compared to old-school radio...where you would just flip the radio on, maybe adjust the portable's antenna sometimes...that was it!
But these days, on my (Android, Alcatel), using direct, without downloading 'APP', it's very crappy performing, and just choking on ADs.
Sometimes, show (finally) gets on-air, for less than 90 seconds...then whoops...back to the whole series of ADs, (..."I'm Doctor Sanjay...Gru...."..) with more health tips advertisements...etc etc.
Technically, of course it's frustrating, with all the drop-outs and flat out signal and web site loss...forcing manual reload. But I suppose it's as a consumer that I notice...plus you cannot get / buy a traditional radio, at least not like before, in local drugstore.