I have an idea for the radio:  Instead of every radio station doing their own traffic and weather reports every few minutes, I think there should be two new radio stations:  One for traffic and one for weather, all the time, day and night, nothing else.  Traffic and weather are two things that are basically just reading from a piece of paper.  The only difference is that different people say things differently.  But however they say it, they're still communicating the same information.  This is unlike news or politics, where each person has their own take (spin) on things and has the choice to include certain things and leave certain things out.  You can listen to several different news programs and hear several different things.  You might hear a few of the same things, but there would be a few things that would be different for each station, because different stations focus on different things, and no station can have all the news all the time.  But if you listen to several different traffic and weather reports, you would hear exactly the same things across the board.  This is because these topics are merely information; you can't tell it any other way.  [That's how news is supposed be too, but it's obviously not.] 

So instead of flipping through the channels and hearing every station's traffic and weather, I think the stations should do away with this and focus more of their efforts on content (oh no, content!).  And anyone who actually wanted to hear a traffic or weather report would just turn to that respective station and get that information.  Or they could just open their eyes to see the traffic report and open their window to get the weather.  Novel concept. #entertainment