Do young folk even listen to "radio" anymore? Let alone AM radio. Most that I know stream with Pandora or some other music subscription service. Those AM "Limbaugh stations" are maybe "talking to" the faculty and other older staff, but students? They get their news from elsewhere.
that's why it works - the people it most negatively effects don't give a shit about what's kicking their internet ass - on things like student debt, public ed funding, global warming denial, racism, and everything republican.
do you know that prominent climate scientist michael mann, who got death threats due to limbaugh calling him a traitor (for trying to sabotage capitalism) works at penn state, a uni that helps 11 limbaugh stations pay rent and salaries so they can deny global warming for the kochs all day long.
how fucking absurd is that?
that is why trump is where he is.
here's some math:
at a cheap $1000/hr x 15hrs/day x 1200 stations, rw talk radio is worth 4.68 BIL$/ year or 390MIL$ /month FREE for coordinated global warming denial, pro republican wall st think tank propaganda, free market deregulation bullshit, swiftboating, and the hate and fear used to get people to vote republican.
and below are the stations by state that shoot-themselves-in-the-foot unis like pitt and penn pay rent and salaries for in exchange for a few grand every year :
and at an avg of $75,000/wk per station in pro trump anti hillary shit that's been accumulating for 25 years because the dem party and the prog orgs have been too dumb to do anything about it - that's a lot
all dems have to do and still have time to do to get congress too is for dems at these campuses to start a discussion on campus. a discussion merely for the unis to consider looking for apolitical alts would freak the local gop out (screaming FREE SPEECH!!!), get media attention, and send advertisers scurrying. the stations would have to decide between paycheck and limbaugh - the guy who's destroying their party.
ALABAMA 8 Auburn 3, Alabama 2, Southern Alabama 2, Troy 1
ARIZONA 1 Arizona St. 1
ARKANSAS 3 Arkansas 3
CALIFORNIA 5 San Jose State 2, USC 2, Fresno St. 1
COLORADO 4 Air Force 2, Colorado 1, Colorado State 1
CONNECTICUT 1 Connecticut 1
FLORIDA 20 Florida 10, Florida St. 4 Miami 2, South Florida 2, Central Florida 2
GEORGIA 14 Georgia 7, Georgia Tech 5, Georgia Southern 2
IDAHO 7 Boise St. 4, Idaho 3
ILLINOIS 7 Illinois 7
INDIANA 11 Notre Dame 6, Purdue 4, Indiana 1
IOWA 5 Iowa 4, Iowa St. 1
KANSAS 4 Kansas St. 2, Kansas 1, Wichita St. 1
KENTUCKY 3 Louisville 2, Kentucky 1
LOUSIANA 3 LSU 2, La.-Monroe 1
MARYLAND 2 Maryland 2
MASSACHUSETTS 1 Boston College 1
MICHIGAN 19 Michigan St. 11, Michigan 7, Western Michigan 1
MINNESOTA 4 Minnesota 4
MISSISSIPPI 6 Mississippi St. 3, Mississippi 2, Southern Miss 1
MISSOURI 6 Missouri 6
NEBRASKA 6 Nebraska 6
NEVADA 1 Nevada 1
NEW JERSEY 2 Rutgers 1, Seton Hall 1
NEW MEXICO 3 New Mexico 2, New Mexico St. 1
NEW YORK 7 Syracuse 6, Army 1
NORTH CAROLINA 16 North Carolina 8, North Carolina State 3, Duke 3, East Carolina 2
OHIO 10 Ohio St. 6, Toledo 1, Dayton 1, Bowling Green 1, Xavier 1
OKLAHOMA 5 Oklahoma St. 3, Oklahoma 1, Oral Roberts 1
OREGON 12 Oregon St. 7, Oregon 5
PENNSYLVANIA 14 Penn St. 11, Pittsburgh 2, Temple 1
SOUTH CAROLINA 4 South Carolina 2, Clemson 2
TENNESSEE 7 Tennessee 4, Memphis 3
TEXAS 16 Texas A&M 9, Texas Tech 4, Texas 1, Texas Christian 1, Baylor 1
UTAH 1 Utah St. 1
VIRGINIA 6 Virginia Tech 5, Virginia 1
WASHINGTON 6 Washington 5, Washington St. 1
WEST VIRGINIA 2 West Virginia 1, Marshall 1
WISCONSIN 3 Wisconsin 3
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