Clear Channel owned Premier Radio Networks. They Own The Rush Limbaugh Show. Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and consolidation was already pushing conservative talk radio to the right. At the same time, a concept called format purity was trickling into talk radio from the music world.
If you’ve ever flipped through the radio dial — not satellite, not podcasts, but good old-fashioned AM and FM radio — you may have noticed something. Right wing radio talk is everywhere.
But the airwaves weren't always so dominated by such a narrow range of voices. Reporter and friend of the show Katie Thornton has the story of how talk radio has evolved (and perhaps devolved at times) over the past century, and what all of it means for the airwaves today.
The Divided Dial
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