This whole Imus/Shock Radio thing.

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 15 Apr 2007 at 14:00, Donna Halper wrote:

> On top 40 and popular radio, yes.  But I also mentioned in another
> e-mail that this was being done in the 1950s (I've got it as early as
> 1951) by conservative/right wing churches and groups like the John
> Birch Society, which had syndicated shows (one critic called them
> nothing more than "Hate Clubs of the Air").  These shock radio shows
> were not on in a lot of markets and they weren't syndicated in all
> cases, but they were every bit as outrageous and said some pretty
> nasty things, all without any penalty.  They flew under the radar
> screen of the FCC more often than not.  

I seem to remember something about a Father Coughlin on radio in the 
1940s.

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