Compared with commercial stations, how did WDET present local culture differently?

WDET took a deeper, more grassroots approach, treating local culture not as something to be packaged into neat segments for ad breaks but as the living, breathing fabric of the city. Commercial stations would often cherry-pick the most commercial-friendly bits of Detroit's scene-the big names, the safe bets-while WDET let the airwaves breathe with community voices, underground artists, and stories that didn't fit a profit-driven format, making the local feel authentic rather than curated.