[VOA]

Can the FCC step in and say that stations must change format because
a certain format is not on in a given city, or regulate musical content?

I don't know the actual answer to that. But I'm enough of a
"graybeard" (literally) that I can remember how BORING AM talk
radio was before Rush came along.

The first time I heard a Rush Limbaugh broadcast in Oklahoma,
I had (most likely) the same tingling that oppressed folks in
the USSR had when they heard their first Voice of America broadcast.
(my FR handle was born from talking with a family that escaped
one of the Baltic States after The Berlin Wall fell.)

With Sixty Democratic Senators and a majority of Democrats in
The House...
I suspect The ObamaMessiah can try (and maybe get) any sort of
lunatic legislation he pleases.

[raccoonradio]

yes...I started listening to talk radio around ‘87 or
so with Jerry Williams in Boston and no doubt it was very
boring before then what with the FD. (btw Jerry, who has since passed on, had mentioned on air that in the early days before the time-delay was developed they were not allowed
to talk directly with the callers on air. “OK, so you say
you just bought a new Ford and you really like it? What do
you like best about it. Uh huh. And you say...” That’s
right—the caller could not be relayed over the air!)

In Boston Rush began as a weekends only show on what was
then WHDH AM 850 (now sports as WEEI). They later picked
him up daily, live, etc.