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S2 THE DIVIDED DIAL EPISODE 4: Wall St. Wants Your Airwaves

May 28, 202540 min
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EPISODE 4

In recent years, creative, often music-focused pirate broadcasting has been thriving on shortwave. But these surreptitious broadcasters are up against a surprising ideological foe: Not the FCC, but a deep-pocketed group of finance bros that is trying to wrestle the airwaves away from the public, and use them for a money-making scheme completely antithetical to broadcasting. What do we lose when we give up our public airwaves?

 

The Divided Dial was supported in part by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism

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