The Divided Dial

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EPISODE 4: Wall St. Wants Your Airwaves In recent years, creative, often music-focused pirate broadcasting has been thriving on shortwave. But these surreptitious broadc

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EPISODE 3: World's Last Chance Radio Today, in the internet era, much of the shortwaves have been left to the most extreme voices — including a conspiratorial flat earth

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EPISODE 2: You Must Form Your Militia Units Many governments eased off the shortwaves after the Cold War, and homegrown US-based rightwing extremists edged out shortwave

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You know AM and FM radio. But did you know that there is a whole other world of radio surrounding us at all times? It’s called shortwave — and, thanks to a quirk of scien

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Episode 5: There's Something About Radio Highly politicized, partisan companies like Salem have a hold on the airwaves — and they don’t plan to give it up. Senior Vice P

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Episode 4: From The Extreme to The Mainstream In the 1970s, talk radio was hitting its stride, with hosts and listeners from all political persuasions. But the radio dia

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Episode 3: The Liberal Bias Boogeyman How did the right get their vice grip of the airwaves, all the while arguing that they were being silenced and censored by a libera

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Episode 2: From Pulpit to Politics How did the little-known Salem Media Group come to have an outsized political influence? In this episode we trace the company’s rise t

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Episode 1: The True Believers In 2016, Christian talk radio host Eric Metaxas begrudgingly encouraged his listeners to vote for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.