Twentieth century thinking.
What are you not taking into account?
Bushnell, IL., population- 3,117.
It’s a radio show, not a podcast. There are still plenty of radio shows that draw hundreds of times what a podcast draws, but this isn’t one of them. The two are not interchangeable. Tens of millions of people still listen to AM radio every day. And if radio were dying, that would only mean that they were getting a miniscule of a teeny-tiny pie.
People are only noting this story because of the Fox News brand, believing inaccurately that Fox News is investing serious money promoting idiots like Guy Benson and Marie Harf. My guess is that what they’re doing is countering accusations that they only promote conservatives by letting high-profile liberals get syndicated and fail to find a market. (Why the HELL would someone listen to liberal radio hosts on the advertisement-cluttered stations ... sometimes there’s 40 minutes of ad per hour ... when they can get all the liberalism they want on government-supported socialist radio like NPR?)