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Originally Posted by maineguy8888
There really wasn't much talk radio until Limbaugh. Talk radio and FOX news rose so far and fast exactly because non-leftists were locked out by the old media, and had been for decades.
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Actually there was quite a bit of talk radio before Rush but the thing was it was more/less restricted to the bigger cities and usually on the most powerful of stations that can reach for hundreds of miles such as New York City's WABC and the now defunct 66 WNBC, Cincinnati's WLW and Denver's KOA for examples. In the smaller markets pre-Rush "talk radio" were pretty much the usual buy & sell programs and maybe interviews with local politicians such as the mayor or some celebrity who was in town plugging something and if it wasn't that maybe a show where the callers would just vent such as the show Norfolk/Virginia Beach's WTAR had in the early 80s.
Hagerstown, Maryland had a station that was totally talk radio as far back as 1982. Of course the shows they had were pretty much all advice programs like Dr. Toni Grant ( sex ), Bruce Williams ( money ) and one that was about pets "..how to take care of hamsters" was one topic I can remember. Political talk was very rare for them, By the mid 80s the station went to a "music of your life" format. Rush just took something that had already existed and made it bigger.
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