*THIS* is why we need community voices. Amalgamating podcasters into 3 big companies in the USA with one of them being iHeartMedia (the old ClearChannel) and another being Entercom (the old CBS Radio) is not healthy. The third one is E W Scripps Ohio which owns Stitcher. We can call the fourth big podcaster NPR and its affiliates.
That’s not a diverse, healthy landscape. That’s homogenized, pasteurized, standardized drivel. We must do better to survive as a society.