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"It's in a time slot that previously didn't have a DJ, so no staffing impacts," a spokesperson said in an email.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

The trend is called enshittification.

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"Don't. Praise. The machine."

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

The simpsons predicted everything

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

part of growing trend

That growing trend? Eviscerating the consumer base that makes a consumption based economy function.

“It’s in a time slot that previously didn’t have a DJ, so no staffing impacts,”

For now. They are obviously testing the response.

[–] Binzy_Boi@piefed.ca -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Probably going to be against the grain, but I think the idea is interesting.

Thinking of like, the late late night where you probably don't have a host and someone wants to have one since that's what I like most about radio.

If it's treated as an experimental placeholder until they can support a host being in that time slot, I say go for it, line for me is drawn when they use that to replace hosts.

[–] Cnkcv@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago

The issue is, that's the ideal spot for someone just getting into the business. Similar to a junior software engineer. If we start eliminating all the junior positions, it won't be long before we have no one qualified for the senior ones.