Does Anyone Listen to WTMC?

The Delaware Department of Transportation operates 4 HAR stations on 1380, in Wilmington (WTMC), Smyrna, Dover and Rehoboth Beach (all 10-watt stations, or so). It's the usual fare, construction info and highly annoying PSAs that nag at you continually to buckle your seat belt and to watch for pedestrians. Those PSAs are so insulting and annoying to make me tune out as soon as one comes on. For real-live traffic info, the WTMC network is useless. There was a very serious accident in Camden last week where 11 people were injured and no mention at all of it was made on WTMC, despite a major traffic backup that was the result of the accident. If you want traffic in New Castle County, listed to WDEL or WILM. In Kent County, you'll get some traffic off WDOV (a rather useless station in its own right). I don't know if WGMD gives any traffic for the beaches. But no one tunes into WTMC for traffic. The construction delay info on WTMC is only marginally useful. They don't even give any weather forecasts or conditions, that would be genuinely useful. And the announcers on WTMC are just awful, reading will all the sincerity of a housewife reading the ingredients on a box of cereal in the grocery store. Can't they hire some professional-sounding announcers?

So what's the point in this taxpayer-run network? The private stations in Delaware do it much better and you can always go to the DelDOT website if you want construction delay info. Why not sell the 1380 outlet in Wilmington and shut down the HAR stations and save the already-overburdened taxpayer a few dollars? This makes good sense seeing how far in the financial hole the state of Delaware is currently in.