I dont always stick to it. There now follows an important message for viewers outraged by bombastic breakfast TV presenters and talk radio ranters. They had at one point seven or eight executives who were all pulling substantial six-figure salaries at a time when the network was losing money. For Ad-Free Subscriptions go here: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/membership-account/membership-levels/, Terms and Conditions But broadly, yeah. Talk radio has been around for a long, long time. I dont get it. Thom Hartmann is the #1 progressive talk radio show host in the country. And we have been there for 38 years since then. The middle class has been gutted. And I put together a one-day seminar for sales staff in radio stations and took it on the road and traveled all around the country visiting all these radio stations that we run, saying heres how you sell progressive talk radio. First of all, you have to have one person on your sales staff who is completely devoted to it, and who understands the politics of it. You're not all that Cundy.Petri once shut down a caller who wanted to discuss covid vaccine harms. Another programme in the channels schedule could give prominence to a pro-immigration argument. If youre looking for a formula for doing effective talk radio, its to make sure that youre only talking about things that you know enough about to speak authoritatively, and that you care enough about to have some passion, because that passion that you have is going to be picked up by your listeners and its going to cause them to get you know. Sunak says UK, Italy 'aligned' as he meets far-right Meloni It is a relatively unique medium that has its own rules. Recently, conservative Nigel Farage hosted a talk show on LBC. TalkRadio - Due impartiality? Digital Spy This used to be illegal. Yeah. I've always wanted to ask you why talk radio is so right-wing, why the right has managed to dominate this particular medium. Maybe not all presenters are that good especially Trisha and the late night ones. Yeah, thats an important point. Analysis / Bias In review, LBC radio primarily broadcasts talk and phone-in type shows. AM and FM talk stations are dominated by uber-right wing media voices hosting local and syndicated shows. Yet if Labour want to take notes from across the Atlantic, the efforts of Stacey Abrams and others in driving up voter registration would be the best place to start. And theres a chapter in the book about radio monopolies. We were both teenage DJs. And so, one of the objections that you will hear when people try to revisit this is that well, we here at Clear Channel couldnt successfully sell advertising on the progressive stations. First of all, its not true. Love TalkRadio /TV. However, alternative viewpoints must be adequately represented either in the programme, or in a series of programmes taken as a whole. It really is difficult for independent media to flourish, or to have any dissent. And they made a movie out of it: Talk Radio. Where can you find voices of truth and reason n the UK. Sadly, sadly. with Talk Radio being far more right wing and more along the lines of GB News. Yeah. The appointment of the former Goldman Sachs associate may not have been the culture war gesture briefed a few months ago, when the Sunday Times claimed the prime minister favoured Charles Moore for the role, but Sharp is a hugely influential figure in party circles nonetheless. Every other week our editorial team brings you a mixture of discussion, analysis, and whimsy. Yeah. Anyone can write a Trustpilot review. Other people like Sean Hannity would take calls throughout the show. The Mark Levin Show is hosted by one of America's most prominent conservative voices, a nationally syndicated radio host, seven-time best-selling author, and constitutional lawyer. And then finally, youve got host-driven talk radio, and thats where the host builds a relationship with the listener, singularalthough you and I both know, its pluralthe host builds a relationship with the listener. Last October, newspapers owned by Viscount Rothermere - a close friend of David Cameron and a tax-avoiding 'non-dom' - accounted for 35% of all circulation, with a further 25% owned by Rupert Murdoch's News UK. America started out with small businesses all over. A paperback copy of the book "Echoland," which envisions a socialist future transformed by artificial intelligence. If any of them were to decide that they were going to put on, for example, progressive radio, they would have to run it up the chain of command and have to get signed off on, build an economic case for it. And its just gutting small businesses in America and small town America. Look at the swathes of homeless people here and in the USA and this is after 12 years of Conservative government here. And I think they lost because right-wing talk radio just destroyed that candidacy. They also had Katie Hopkins, a conservative provocateur, that had to resign over a controversial tweet. But theres no place that you can go to learn how to do talk radio, outside of being thrown into the water in a small local market and making your mistakes for the first year. Exactly. And I dont mean that politically. You get a bunch of, Oh, Im 90-years-old and, oh, Ive been talking about, you know. There are other things that youve learned over your decades of broadcasting, from observing Limbaugh, from perfecting this yourself, about how this is done really, really well in a way thats compelling to people. Whilst the Andrew Neil-led GB News and Rupert Murdochs News UK TV platform gear up for Spring launches, a raging culture war has already claimed the scalp of Piers Morgan, whose dismissal of the Duchess of Sussexs mental health struggles on GMB prompted 41,000 complaints to Ofcom in a single day. And podcasts are great, and theyre growing rapidly, but theyre also growing rapidly in the 40 and under demographic. The broadcasting standards commission has criticized him for encouraging racism against asylum seekers. One extreme to the other in terms of presenting style, political and social awareness and journalistic ability. Im telling you, youre going to see by the 2024 election, youre going to see Spanish language radio stations in every community in America with a significant Spanish-speaking population, pushing right-wing politics, and theyre already halfway there.