How Conservative Talk Radio Came to Dominate the Airwaves

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On the Media

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2024-11-30

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The legal, technological, and political factors that led to conservative talk radio ruling the airwaves.

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  • On this week's on the media.

  • 17 of the nation's top 20 most listened to talk radio hosts are conservative.

  • Only one is progressing.

  • How did the public airwaves come to be so politically lopsided?

  • If you turn the country station on and you hear Beethoven's fifth, you're going to be confused.

  • Radio executives think that people feel the same way about talk.

  • Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program, a program exclusively designed for rich conservatives and right minded Republicans and those who want to be either or both.

  • We sold it as news from a biblical worldview, but it was funny how that biblical worldview seemed to line up with Republican Party politics.

  • Why would we want to have any Democrats on They're losers.

  • I'm never gonna speak.

  • I am a working mother.

  • Yeah.

  • And my kids are fine.

  • They have.

  • They are not.

  • Who's raising them?

  • You don't have them.

  • The babysitter's got them.

  • You ain't no mama.

  • Get off my program, you liberal.