This is why the Republicans, despite always being wrong, still get the lion's share of airtime

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46. here's some more!

i'll do a bit more work and then maybe it will go up at republicanradio.org (!) and republiconradio.org

HOW TO RECORD AND TRANSCRIBE REPUBLICAN RADIO

Republican radio talkers can say just about anything they want because Democrats and liberals don’t listen. And there has been no written, searchable record of what talk radio is repeating or how often.

Now there can be. Improvements in transcription software make it possible to get a good idea of what they’re saying and how often they’re saying it, without the pain of actually listening to it.

As elections approach, friendly interviews with Republican candidates, their aides, and think tank sponsored guests become more common on Republican radio. It’s free advertising and they feel comfortable saying things they wouldn’t on other media. Their radio appearances will provide more examples of ignorance, bigotry, and lies, which can be useful in advertising, letters to the editor, and debates.

With a basic text application the transcriptions can be searched for points of interest. When the name of a Democratic candidate appears it is likely that she is being lied about, attacked, and is in the process of being swiftboated with basic direction from local or national GOP-friendly think tanks.

The original recordings can be used for verification.

How many bloggers, protestors, activists, volunteers, and small donations is one Republican radio station and a few loudmouths worth?

What are are they saying about:
Your representatives and candidates?
Global warming?
Health care?
War?
Energy policy?
Racism?
Sexism?
Wall street regulation?
Net neutrality?
Censorship?
Immigration?
Abortion?
Supreme court candidates?
Drug policy?
Media reform?
Election reform?
Voter suppression?
Gun control?
Public education?
Unions?
Teachers?
You?

RECORD (for MAC)

Snowtape, for about $30, allows you to schedule your computer to simultaneously record multiple radio streams at the same time.

If you know the station you want to monitor:
1) Start the live stream from the station, go to FILE in Snowtape, then IMPORT URL. The URL should automatically fill the field. If not, copy and paste the player window’s URL into the field. Sometimes there’s a delay but a little window pops up to indicate if it was imported successfully or not.
2) If it can be imported it should show up in Snowtape's Last Imported category and you can drag it into Favorites or another category.

If it can’t be imported as described above:
1) Use Radio Locator to search the station by its call letters. (You can also search Radio Locator for talk radio stations by state. It can also provide a signal coverage map. Unfortunately, Radio Locator has a maximum per day free use.)
2) Copy the link in the Audio Feed field, go to FILE in Snowtape, then IMPORT URL. Paste the link into the import URL field and import.
3) If that doesn’t work click on the link in the Audio Feed field and it may open a player window so it can be imported as described above. Or it may open ITunes.
4) If you can open the radio station in ITunes, click on Get Info in the FILE menu in ITunes and then click on EDIT URL. Copy that URL and import it into Snowtape.


TRANSCRIBE

Dragon Dictate costs about $200 for Mac or PC and may be the best transcription software available. It can be trained for multiple voice profiles for better accuracy.

1) In Snowtape Preferences go to Exporting and choose the AAC format.
2) Select files to translate and in the Snowtape Action menu choose Export to iTunes. Those files will be placed in a Snowtape file as M4A files that transcription software can use.
3) Then drag them from iTunes to a folder in Finder and you then should be able to open them with Dragon.

Don't expect error free transcription!

Slow clear speech with no background noise provides best results but there are other factors. Most talk shows include guests, other staff voices, and advertisements, so it's a bit mixed up. And you have to actually enunciate punctuation if you’re dictating so the transcription software runs all sentences together.

Dragon will produce transcriptions with guesses that make no sense but training for the voice of the particular talker and for the vocabulary you are interested in helps. Some radio talkers may have similar voices and styles so the same profile might be useful for more than one talker. It may be possible to export/share trained voice profiles- that could save some time and trouble.


76 UNIVERSITIES THAT DENY GLOBAL WARMING

Republican radio depends on hundreds of publicly funded schools, colleges, and universities.

In exchange for small licensing fees the schools bless Republican radio stations with undeserved community credibility and advertising revenue. The stations and their talkers get to put sports team logos on their bullhorns.

Out of 120 top ranked football programs in 2011, 72, or approximately 60%, broadcast on Rush Limbaugh stations. Together they account for 172 of Limbaugh's 600 stations, or 28%. In 2011, 15 of the final 16 NCAA tournament basketball teams, or 94%, broadcast on Limbaugh stations.

For 25 years talk radio has played a significant part in enabling denial by politicians and delaying US action to reduce carbon emissions. Republican radio stations advocate for the deregulation and continued subsidization of the fossil fuels industries, including fracking. They promote Republican flat-earther candidates who push fossil fuel dependency. They attack advocates and legislation that would tax carbon emissions or promote alternative energy technologies. They act as intimidators to ensure that few Republican representatives or candidates will acknowledge, much less challenge, our greatest national security threat.

The urgency of climate change makes it imperative for those schools to take their mission statements more seriously and find apolitical alternatives for broadcasting their sports events.

Most Republican radio stations headline talkers such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Michael Savage, Laura Ingraham, etc.

Together with hundreds of local Republican talkers and energy and climate guest ‘experts’ supplied by the think tanks, they blanket the country with constant global warming denial. They played a major role in selling the East Anglia email hoax that climate scientist Michael Mann says probably delayed climate action for years.

Most of the programming on Republican radio stations is inconsistent with the stated goals of our institutions of higher learning and the interests of most students under the age of 90.

For 25 years Republican radio stations have been used to:
-blanket the country with global warming denial
-attack science and scientists that interfere with the pro-corporate deregulation agenda
-attack teachers
-promote strategies used to defund and privatize public education
-oppose legislation and tax reform that would lower tuition rates
-influence elections for university regents and choices for university presidents
-oppose attempts to facilitate student voting
-use hate, bigotry, and disinformation to divide communities, elect Republicans, and sell the Republican agenda

Radio licensing revenue is a minor part of overall sports licensing revenues. In 2013/14, a radio station will pay $1500 to Westwood One/Dial Global for a championship NCAA basketball game. How much of that goes to the University? Details of licensing agreements between state funded schools and licensing companies are usually kept confidential, even from school administration.

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