There have been many critics of conservative talk radio and talk radio as a whole. WLS-AM 890 host Steve Cochran works in the industry, and believes there are serious problems with what he hears.
While featuring a nearly half-hour-long interview with former Chicago media critic Robert Feder, Cochran and the critic discussed the diminished influence radio has in the greater media landscape.
Feder argued that the economic model of the radio business has changed so much that the bottom has fallen out, and “covering the radio business today is not even sustainable,” because the medium doesn’t matter to as many as it used to.
Cochran pushed back slightly that the usage has diminished, before admitting the problems with the talk radio industry today.
“Radio is still heard or used by more than 90% of the country every day, but it’s so fractionalized. They’re not staying for as long, they’re popping in and out, and they don’t have those ties to the personalities like they used to,” Cochran said. “I consider what I do to be the last sane talk show in America because everything else is so tribal.”
Feder joked that Cochran should trademark the moniker. “It doesn’t roll off the tongue like ‘Superjock’,” Steve Cochran joked.
