Far-right conspiracy purveyors have found a home on a hard-to-monitor, minimally scrutinized medium: talk radio. But the current state of our country’s divided dial didn’t happen overnight — and it didn’t happen by accident. The Divided Dial is the story of how we got here, how what happens on the radio still shapes the American political landscape, and how one company is quietly launching a right wing media empire from the airwaves. Hosted by Katie Thornton, produced by On the Media and distributed by WNYC Studios.
EPISODE 4In recent years, creative, often music-focused pirate broadcasting has been thriving on shortwave. But these surreptitious broadcasters are up against a surprising enemy: Not...
Season Two of On the Media’s Peabody-winning series The Divided Dial is the untold story of shortwave radio: the way-less-listened to but way-farther-reaching cousin of AM and FM radi...
Season Two of On the Media’s Peabody-winning series The Divided Dial is the untold story of shortwave radio: the way-less-listened to but way-farther-reaching cousin of AM and FM radi...
Season Two of On the Media’s Peabody-winning series The Divided Dial is the untold story of shortwave radio: the way-less-listened to but way-farther-reaching cousin of AM and FM radi...