This document discusses the history and impact of radio, from its invention in the late 19th century to modern talk radio. It notes that James Clerk Maxwell theorized electromagnetic waves, which were later proven by Heinrich Hertz. Radio proved valuable for distress signals, like on the Titanic. Regulation of radio frequencies began in the 1920s to avoid interference. Talk radio emerged as a popular format in the 1980s after deregulation, allowing opinions on issues and politics. Popular radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Jerry Doyle are discussed. The influence of talk radio on politics is also mentioned.

1. James Clerk
Maxwell
Once upon a decade a hundred years ago a physicist, James Clerk Maxwell
theorized the existence of electromagnetic waves. A contemporary German
scientist named Heinrich Hertz later proved Maxwell’s theory factual.
Maybe his Mom called him “Gug”, but Guglielmo Marconi discovered a
method of transmitting wireless sound and David Sarnoff could have
suggested with many others that “radios” be mass produced and sold to
households for music, news, and informative purposes.

2. Radio Transmitter 1912
Radio proved to be as valuable as the lifeboats on the sinking Titanic. Her distress
signals were received and rescue messages were sent to other ships in the region to
come to her aid. The value of radio was manifested to the world. It would change
lives all over the world. It would be used in war. It would be used in peace.
Communication just advanced at the speed of light.

3. Frequency
Regulation
The air waves needed regulation like the roads
did when the automobile took off. Radio licenses
were being sold for the radio frequencies and
broadcasts were dubbing over eachother making
neither party’s product worth listening to. People
taking part in the National Radio Conferences
appealed to the Secretary of Commerce for help
before the medium self destructed. President
Coolage urged Congress to deal with the
problem. The Radio Act of 1927 was instituted.
Like traffic laws, the radio waves had licenses and
rules governing operating hours and power
regulation.

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The FCC took the view, in 1949, that station licensees were "public trustees," and as such had
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an obligation to afford reasonable opportunity for discussion of contrasting points of view on
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controversial issues of public importance. The FCC policy of the Fairness Doctrine would
emerge in 1949 which pressed the talk stations to afford equal time for opposing points of
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view. Journalists did not like this regulation of the media. It was the journalist’s job to discern
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the newsworthy stories of the day and it was the audience’s responsibility to discern the
trustworthy journalists.

5. Reagan Loved Radio
With President Reagan’s deregulation efforts of the media the Fairness Doctrine
escaped becoming law by both Houses of Congress and commentators were free to
entertain, inform, and commentate as they saw fit. Freedom of speech was on the air.
Talk show hosts could now report political news and their analysis of it.

6. Talk Radio is market driven. If listeners don’t like what is said they will quit tuning
in, commercial time won’t sell, and the show will disappear. It still remains the
responsibility of the audience to discern truth from error. Every show and every person
on planet earth is biased. A wise citizen would gather information on current events from
as many sources as possible to form their own conclusions. Talk Radio frequently covers
stories main stream news covers up. Talk Radioaffects contemporary politics and some
talk show hosts are a huge thorn in the side of the Washington D.C. establishment.

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Ultimately it is the Cast responsibility to be informed of the politics
citizen’s
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affecting the freedom in his or her country. Years of apathy and willful
ignorance have brought our nation to this point. Just because you
don’t have an interest in politics, that doesn’t mean politics doesn’t
have an interest in you. You will still be governed. We are not nearly as
free or prosperous as we could be as citizens of this nation.

8. Ramos and Compean
Listening to talk radio is a great way to stay relatively informed if you don’t
have time to surf the web in depth getting the scoop yourself. I am a biased
individual. My bias is towards the United States Constitution and justice for all.
Too many Americans have never read it and consequently have no idea when
it’s being violated. There are many Republican cheerleader talk show hosts.
There are a few Democrat cheerleader talk show host. There are a few talk
show hosts that are despised by the D C Establishments in both parties.

9. Rush Limbaugh is considered the Father of Political Talk Radio. After the Reagan
degulation of the airwaves he emerged as a huge market share taker first broadcasting out
of Sacramento California. He grew in immense popularity during the Clinton
Administration with Monica, Whitewater, and some of the dead people. He is very much a
Republican and has cheer led and carried the party’s water for twenty years. Only in recent
years as his listenership has grown more wary of the establishment repubs has he started
to criticize the party at all.

10. Independen
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Jerry Doyle, heard locally on 860 AM, ran as a Republican candidate for Congress while acting in
California. He’s very much a libertarian at heart and has no love for political parties if they don’t
represent the people. He was kicked off of a Fox News interview for wearing an “Arrest
Paulsen” T-shirt referring to Hank Paulsen, Secretary of the Treasury during the last Bush
Administration. He made money on Wall Street before he went to Hollywood, filled in on radio
once and hasn’t left. He’s heard on over 200 stations across the country and resides in Las
Vegas.

11. The Glenn Beck Program
(picture)Glenn Beck first cracked the mic in radio when he was thirteen years old. He was a
DJ and program director for years. Drug and Alcohol abuse left him penniless until he got his
act together in ’99 and is syndicated today by Premiere Radio Networks. He owns his radio
show and hosted a CNN show for a couple years before jumping over to Fox. When Fox didn’t
like what he was saying he left, choosing not to be censored, and started his own network
GBTV viewed online.

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WHO 55 foot snake
KILLED JFK? in China

13. (AM 630 KTKK ) K-Talk AM 630 in South Jordan has some amazing local amateur
talent but is also one of the weirdest run radio stations you’ll ever tune in to. After
listening to it you may very well wonder if the owner is trying to discourage
listenership. If you give the different hosts a chance you will find some you really
like but the bumper music is bizarre, the intro and outro sound hasn’t changed in
years and that would be fine if it were any good.

14. Dr. Jack
Stockwell
discusses current
events and hosts
two health shows
a week.
Unpopular politics is usually his format except
when he does a health show on Wed and
Saturday. I consider his health shows a wealth
of information. His politics are worth
considering

15. Tim Alders is the man behind “Buy Back America Radio” His
knowledge of the Constitution and Federal Reserve System is an
enlightening experience.

16. CANADA’S
RADIO ACT
LABELS CONTROVERSIAL MORAL ISSUES AS
HATE SPEECH AND THE DISCUSSION IS
BANNED FROM THE AIR WAVES.
Talk radio and the internet is what freedom of speech and the 1rst
Amendment are all about. Freedom of speech was important to
the Founders because they saw the people’s voice silenced
subject to the will of the King. Political speech has to be
protected if we are to be a free people. Much of what you hear on
talk radio today would be labeled HATE speech in Ontario,
Canada.

17. MIDDLE EASTERN ILLEGALS ARE ALSO COMING

18. Senator Bob Bennett is no longer a senator. After three terms he showed no
signs of leaving. He did leave though in part due to talk radio. Stories
unreported in the newspapers were discussed in depth on some of the air
waves. Some of those people got involved, fought the Bennett political
machine and threw him out.

19. 89 % of his campaign money comes
from outside Utah fec.gov Center for Responsive
politics.
Senator Orrin Hatch saw what happened to his buddy Bob at the convention and started
preparing against his departure two years ago. He has all of the money he needs spending
330 K a month campaigning mostly in the form of photo ops with special people and radio
and television ads. He has a full paid staff but doesn’t possess the grass roots effort that has
followed his opponent Dan Liljenquist.

20. People who only listen to the radio commercials and
TV ads would naturally think he is the man for the
job. If they take the time to look at his voting record
recorded in the Library of Congress on line at
Thomas.gov they may learn a few hundred
things about the thirty six year Senator