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Part One Joe Pyne: The Man Who Invented Right Wing Talk Radio

Behind the Bastards

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You Mayagree or Disagree With Joe Pine, but You Won't Turn Him Off.

The nbc radio network started syndicating his show nationally in march of 19 66, and it was soon on more than 200 stations around the country. Now that he was on a new time slaught, the mid morning a rather than the night, as he'd usually been before, his ratings exploded. This is generally thought to be due to the fact that being on earlier in the day opened him up to a vast new audience of board housewives. So joe was on both the radio and the t v. And his television show alearn alone earned him more money per year than miky mantle playd playing made playing for the yankees. He was the top rated talk show

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