Air America went bankrupt in 2006 and were totally off the air by 2010. With a lot of stations already airing conservative talk program from morning to night, why would any liberal upstart find purchase in that landscape? Because I'm not looking for it. And I've given up so long ago that it doesn't really matter.
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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