One of Providence’s talk stations is WHJJ AM 920, owned by Clear Channel. They have one local talk show in the morning (Helen Glover formerly of Survivor) and then Beck, Rush, Hannity, etc—syndicated by Premiere, which is part of Clear Channel. A few years ago Clear Channel decided to try Air America on AM 920, and the ratings plummeted. The program director declared “the Air America experiment is over” and they went to conservative talk. No doubt most listeners who wanted libtalk could already find it, on taxpayer funded NPR...
The libs have all of TV, which has a much larger audience than radio.