'A Complete Shock:' Long-Running Freeform Radio Station WBAI Abruptly Shut Down

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First) I never had it. As others and I have said, just because you had (or do) something doesn't mean everyone else has(or dose) the same.

Second) As I have already written, knowing a little about economics is kinda useful here. It's called the free-rider problem. People on the left don't like to put down money for content. Also, far-left programming is going suffer as the far-left has been demonized for the past 50 years in America. Which means the market share of far-left listens is small.

Given a small pool of listeners, and them not wanting to pay for content is a sure fire way to lose money. As someone else said already rw radio (Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Alex Jones, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Dennis Prager, Michael "Savage" Wiener, Dwight Schultz, etc) are backed by rw millionaires and billionaires who give massive sums of money to keep these fools on the radio. Why? Because it's an investment that provides a outstanding ROI. How much did these people make via the GOP tax cuts???

Third
If you build it they will come. Bernie Sanders gets 13 million votes in 2016 and you tell me their ain't no audience? Mr. Trump wins 2016 and you think their aren't large amounts of disenfranchised citizens hungry to hear the message of the left. During times of failures in capitalism people go one of two ways, socialism or fascism. Guess which side is wining the radio game?


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It's not even a debate anymore how much rw radio has influenced politics for the past 30 years. Scores of books and academic articles have been written on this. Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has even listed rw radio as a cause to our current situation.

As I said already, do you think Sean Hannity dose his DAILY radio show for charity?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/talk-radio-made-todays-republican-party/596380/