I do listen to local channels often when driving (not in USA). I think they have often very interesting personalities who are very interested in music and who present good material, I'm learning about new artists or people's backgrounds etc. Sometimes their style of speaking is quite is odd (maybe they were an alcoholic earlier) but that doesn't bother me so much, you get used to it after a minute. I'll take that any day over the hyper-excited people that fill the general channels with empty speech.