Nice article. I selectively listen to a few FM analog broadcast stations that haven't gone totally nuts with their Orban and/or source material. Long familiar with the loudness wars and lack of dynamic range.
Thing is, money-talks, and you know what walks.
What makes me sad is that over the years, I sincerely believe that the powers that be are "conditioning" the audience to accept crap audio as the norm, so that more forms of compression will be accepted. More channels! More "hd" channels, compressed to oblivion and at some point, dangerous to young ears, as more and more audio degradation is introduced into a limited bandwidth.
Sorry man, you got me started. Time to take off my foil hat...