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Seriously, in the more-or-less free market, Conservative talk radio has outsold Liberal talk radio by a huge margin. I don't have the demographics/Arbitrons at hand, but my observation is that Conservatives have 10 times the stations that Liberals do, easily. Why is it, in your opinion, that the government should change what is apparently the public preference for what they want to listen to/call in on?
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This is skewed. Think about it this way. 15 million people listen to Rush. 230 million do not.
Then you have to consider the medium. Talk radio's target is men age 18-34. They tend to skew conservative.
In larger markets news radio beats talk radio's ass.
Let's look at my market.
WTOP-FM Bonneville News 5.6 5.7 6.6 5.9 6.3
WMAL-AM Citadel Talk 4.3 3.7 2.9 3.6 3.3
Chicago
WGN-AM Tribune (non-political) Talk 5.8 6.6 5.5 5.7 6.3
WBBM-AM CBS Radio News 4.3 4.7 4.9 4.7 4.
WLS-AM Citadel Talk 3.6 2.7 3.5 3.1 3.0
Traffic on the tens and :15:45 sports are far more popular than Rush.
Back to the OP, a church in Western NC actually kicked out some members who said they were voting for Kerry in 2004. About half the congregation left over that gaffe.
Nobody is going to mess with big religion. They are the most active and financially willing group.