The real difficulty in gathering information about the culture isn't due to any problem on their part, but because of their prowess in conveying music. Unlike many of the other options available, RadioUTD has such a wide range of differing music that it's hard to pin down aspects that actually fit throughout the entirety of the program. While there might be a similarity within the music of one of the performers, that similarity will crumble when the next one makes it to the station. Because of this, the actual amount of valid information (musical theory-wise) is rather sparse, and despite having been to a broadcast and having interviewed two of the performers I still feel like I'm on square one.
Though the major problem is due to the breadth of the music involved, there are some technical issues in gathering information. While there is a broadcast, there is no way to find out what has been played by the station, both before and after the current song (at least as far as I have been able to find. If there is one, the lack of visibility is a problem). This means that there isn't any way to quickly gather information about what is being played in-bulk, and only allows for directly listening through all of the songs being broadcasted from start to finish (which doesn't work if there are any time constraints). Next is the lack of update management, specifically the lack of RSS feed to their various updates. In order to find out what is going on at the radio, the site itself must be accessed directly, rather than being able to quickly check as to whether or not there was a change since the last time it was accessed.
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Feel free to focus on a specific music culture (i.e. one style of music played during a particular segment of the show). One might assume that listeners tune in during a particular time of day to listen to this music and may not listen all day long. If this is the case, it would be appropriate to focus on a specific music culture that is easier to analyze.
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