It’s been forty years in the making.

for any counter-programming on the AM frequency. The right wing realized that a significant segment of the population still patronized that medium and seized the opportunity to bombard that audience with their propaganda. Those listeners are now rabid consumers of all conservative media and reliable supporters of the Republican/MAGA party.

but we'll use several studies that were done in 2007 as an example. With over 50 million regular listeners of radio, approximately 92% (46 million) were consuming conservative programming. Limbaugh alone had over 20 million listeners during his peak years. And it's highly probable that these listeners would have influenced family, friends, and other members of society with the 'wisdom' that they gleaned from the broadcasts. If you're dismissive or skeptical of the impact that conservative radio programming had in creating the current political environment, so be it. After decades of disciplined, repetitive messaging, the MAGAT power brokers are now celebrating their grand achievement and ultimate goal.

20 million would be less then 10% of the adult population.

"In 2009, Arbitron, the American radio industry's largest audience-measurement company at the time (since subsumed into its television counterpart Nielsen), said that "the job of determining number of listeners for (any particular program or host) is too complicated, expensive and difficult for them to bother with.""

"In addition to Talkers' independent analyses, radio companies of all formats include estimates of the audience in news releases. The nature of news releases allows radio companies to inflate their listener totals by obscuring the difference between listeners at any given time, cumulative listenership over a time frame, and potential audience"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-listened-to_radio_programs

to the internet, so look it up yourself!

I would think you'd be able to provide a link to your source(s) within a matter of a few minutes. Assuming you actually got your info from reputable sources

Faux, OAN or Newsmax bubble. Seriously, stay in your lane with your own kind. Goodbye, troll.

Blue states generally elect blue candidates with sizeable majorities. The same can be said for red states. If you have 20 million listeners across sparsely populated states, that number is sizeable. Truckers running from Kansas City to Carson City got Rush all the way. There are more red states and have greater power than their populations warrant.

In Mi, Trump got about 70% of his votes from counties classified by the Census Bureau as urban.

I think it'd be interesting to map out where the stations that would be considered RW radio are located.

I live in the western part of red, rural Upper Michigan and there are no such stations here. Music, religious, NPR and when I'm in the central part of the Upper Peninsula , I can get sports talk.

92% were listening to conservative programming? Like talk radio? Or is there such a thing as "conservative" music stations? Because for the entirety of my life, I've literally known ONE person who listened to talk radio (of any kind) for every 25 that listened to music.... Your numbers seem.... off.....

It’s really messed up, the lengths these people go to shoehorn liberal bashing into a story and they do it ever single time.

From white suburbs to urban centers were common. There was no cell phones. You either listened to music, AM sports talk or AM Limbaugh. Listening to music was repetitive and AM radio was appealing very similar to why the Today show was so popular at the time. It was common. I listened to AM radio. Saying people listen to AM talk radio was like saying people without cable watched UHF stations. It is a no duh statement.

Are the only things I ever listened to on AM radio, but that's when I worked midnights. And it was almost two decades ago.

And it is absolutely something to be alarmed about.

I see people at work scrolling their phones.
It seems many people are addicted. With land-lines being phased out more people will have their smart phones at hand.

because it will know how.

I hope.

I am ready to shoot drones down too!

destroyed Feudalism - just saying.

it's just bringing up random news stories or even just random people on social media and then fearmongering over culture bs.

eom

It literally encourages people to say sensational things, just for clicks. They make up stores and dox people. One woman was obsessed with murders in Idaho and claimed a professor was involved. She was sued. But I saw this over and over during a case here in San Antonio. People from all over the country, were "paid" by TikTok to be "psychics" They blamed all sorts of innocent people for crimes.

Overall, I think SM is good, but it is so freak'n abused. With twitter, I get the info I need and get out of their. That's because twitter was designed to quickly spread information. It wasn't designed to spend hours scrolling.

FB is different and more addicting. However, it does offer connections to people. I haven't been on since the "Musk announcement". But I've been active on it for over 10 years and my experience has been positive. I really haven't encountered RWingers unless I end up on a "Texas be like", "Texas memes" page. Some of the Armenian groups have right wingers. However, our Armenian genealogy is strict, "No politics". My gardening groups have the same policies etc.

are the direct result of those three things