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LessAspin

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15. Sports talk radio

Reply to maxrandb (Reply #11)

Sun Jan 18, 2026, 10:16 AM

Sunday

Another example of how pervasive rage bait radio has become is here in Lansing Michigan..

Right wing content had already begun creeping into the top of the hour newscasts on our local sports station

Recently they moved our local hate mongering Morning Drive guy to the more popular all sports station.

So the newscasts that they run now are basically an extension of whatever our local Morning Drive guy is raging about that day --

Synergy

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Does Minneapolis have a hate-radio station spewing nothing but fascism and hate 24/7/365? [View all] maxrandb Sunday OP

Sure, just as there are pretty much everywhere in the U.S. WhiskeyGrinder Sunday #1

There's that inconvenient First Amendment thing... Ocelot II Sunday #2

I believe that you still can't yell "Fire!" in a crowded movie theatre maxrandb Sunday #5

You can, actually, and any prosecution that results from reaction to the shouting are not First Amendment cases. WhiskeyGrinder Sunday #6

You're right maxrandb Sunday #9

I love it when I ask for specifics and the response is "no you're right we can't do anything." WhiskeyGrinder Sunday #10

I have repeatedly contacted my own local hate station maxrandb Sunday #12

Slate LessAspin Sunday #3

Slate is still on X-crement????!!!! maxrandb Sunday #7

iHeart is all over the country RandiFan1290 Sunday #4

What's being done to us here is not being done by locals, nor being enabled by locals. n/t Mister Ed Sunday #8

It absolutely is maxrandb Sunday #11

The fans of local right-wing radio are quiet and inactive here at this time. Mister Ed Sunday #13

I am NOT blaming the victim maxrandb Sunday #14

Sports talk radio LessAspin Sunday #15

There is not one that I'm aware of. MineralMan Sunday #16

I was wrong. There are at least two right-wing AM stations in the Twin Cities MineralMan Sunday #17

List RoseTrellis Sunday #18

file complaints with fcc, challenge license renewals. boycott selected advertisers, picket with signs outside station... msongs Sunday #19