WIDR is unlike commercial radio stations.
Commercial stations play it safe.
They don't want to upset their advertisers, they don't want to risk losing a single listener. These numbers are kept up so they can be sold to their customers, the advertisers. WIDR's customers are our listeners. They're the ones who have abandoned commercial radio to seek out a true alternative. The reason WIDR is unlike any other radio station is that it's designed so its listeners just might find it so valuable that they would actually send it their money to help it stay on the air.