True, but it is a medium that mostly carries music. That's like saying concert halls aren't music. That's true, yet most concert halls are venues that are mostly used for musical concerts. The launch post of this thread was very, very clear in noting that the thread was about radio stations that mostly broadcast music, and their shortcomings. Depending on the radio market conditions in your location, I'm sure you'll find that most radio stations either broadcast only recorded music and commercials, or a mix of recorded music and commercials, with occasional breaks to carry sports play-by-play. There will also be a few stations that specialize in mostly spoken word programming, either politics/current events or sports, or maybe both. And then there's public radio. Both listeners probably know what the public stations broadcast. Finally, some locations have one or two low-powered AM brokered time "dollar a holler" religious programming stations. Granted, few AM stations still program music, considering how bad AM sounds, that's not surprising.
Here are the FM and AM stations in Atlanta. Note how many are music stations, especially on the FM band.
87.7 WTBS Music
88.5 WRAS GPB news/talk and music
89.3 WRFG Music
90.1 WABE NPR news/talk
91.1 WREK Diversified Georgia Tech
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91.5 WWEV Christian
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91.9 WCLK Music
92.1 WJGA Music
92.3 Power 92.3 Music
92.3 WMOQ-FM Music
92.5 WEKS Music
92.9 WZGC The Game: sports talk
93.3 WVFJ The Joy FM Music
93.5 WRSM South 93.5, Music
94.1 WSTR Star 94 Music
94.5 W233BF Music
94.9 WUBL Music
95.5 WSBB news/talk
96.7 WWLG Music
97.1 WSRV Music
97.5 WUMJ Music
97.7 WSRV-HD2 Music
97.9 WWWQ-HD3 Music
98.5 WSB B98.5. Music
99.3 WCON Music
99.7 WWWQ Q100 Music
100.1 WNSY in Jasper. Music
100.5 WNNX Rock 100.5 RMusic
100.9 Mas 100.9 Music
101.1 W266BW (WJZA) Music
101.5 WKHX Kicks Music
102.3 WLKQ La Raza – Music
102.5 WPZE Gospel Music
102.9 W275BK (WAMJ-HD2) Music
103.3 WVEE V-103 Music
103.7 WXKT Music
104.1 WALR Kiss 104.1 Music
104.7 WFSH Fish Music
105.3 WBZY El Patron Music
105.5 WAFS Music
105.7 WRDA Music
106.1 WNGC Music
106.3 Sports
106.7 WYAY news/talk
107.1 WTSH Music
107.5 WAMJ Majic Music
107.9 WHTA Music
AM Radio Stations
550 WDUN News/talk
590 WDWD Faith Talk
610 WPLO La Bonita Spanish
640 WGST talk radio
680 WCNN Sports/talk
750 WSB News/talk
790 WQXI Radio Korean
860 WAEC Christian
890 WJTP Chinese h
920 WGKA “The Answer” News/talk
970 WNIV FaithTalk/
1010 WTZA Vida Spanish Christian
1040 WPBS Radio Korean
1080 WFTD Spanish Radio La Ley
1100 WWWE ESPN Hispanic sports
1160 WCFO The Quest, Catholic Radio talk
1190 WAFS Business and financial talk
1230 WFOM Sports X
1260 WTJH Asian
1270 WYXC News/talk
1330 WGTJ, Glory 1330, Music
1340 WIFN Sports X
1380 WAOK News/talk
1400 WNIV Christian talk
1410 WKKP Music
1420 WATB Spanish Music
1430 WGFS The King Music
1440 WGMI Asian
1460 WXEM La Favorita Spanish
1480 WYZE Gospel Music
1520 WDCY Gospel Music
1550 WAZX Spanish/Christian
1570 WIGO The Light Variety/gospel Music
1600 WAOS La Mejor Spanish Music
It's similar in other major cities.