KSPX Sparkx Radio Network

A six-genre format shouldn't work. Somehow, here it does. KSPX Sparkx Radio Network runs country, hip hop, oldies, pop, R&B, and jazz through one feed, and the seams show in the best way. You'll get Charley Pride's baritone, then an OutKast cut, then D'Angelo's "Untitled" sliding into a Sam Cooke side. The jazz selections get real: Ambrose Akinmusire over smooth-jazz wallpaper, which tells you someone in the building actually listens. Country radio in the United States rarely swings this wide, and most of it sounds safer for it. Mornings lean pop and singable, afternoons go harder into hip hop…