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call salem media possibly the most infamous influential media group you ve never heard of. salem is not the biggest radio station in our country, by any means. they own just over 100 stations. but they syndicate to about 3000 other stations. so while most of their station holdings are in the major markets, covering a lot of the american cities in the suburbs, they re reaching a lot of people, their programs are also heard everywhere from the smallest towns to to size cities. new york city has to salem stations where i live in minneapolis. i can think of for salem stations. this has a really large reach on am and fm radio. charlie, you know the space so so well. you were a longtime radio host. none of its new. rush limbaugh was the king of this kind of misinformation for decades. but for many of those decades he was the only one out there doing it. why has it gotten so much worse? because there s so many rush
there in terms of talk radio. yeah, you know, i think salem s reach is multifaceted, because in a single market you can have five, six salem stations. as i said, where i live i can pick up four different salem stations. but something else interesting about salem is that their multi media company. they are bread and butter is this am fm talk radio. they have an interesting model because in addition to being conservative talk radio company they have a lot of christian teaching stations as well. they bill themselves as the country s biggest christian conservative talk mediocre penny. they have christian teaching talk stations which are promoting what they call biblical values. and they use the stations as a way to fund a lot of their other radio operations. about 50% of their radio income comes from these paid ministries, these programs that