I had the same problem with Today's hits. I'd ask google to play the station and it would play Today's hits thumbed up songs playlist or whatever. You need to say "Play today's hits REGULAR radio" and it works. This blog from 2019 is where I found it and it works. It's ridiculous, who would think to say that? For some reason it won't let me post a link to the blog here. Google this: google home play pandora thumbs up instead of radio Scroll down past the pandora help links (the first two I think) to the one that says: support.google.com on May 22, 2019     ... View more