These signal hampered stations used to do rather well with Fringe Kook Talk (Art Bell, Chuck Harder, Alex Jones)
Chuck Harder hasn’t been remotely a factor since before Y2K and is totally gone now. I can’t think of but a handful of major stations where he was heard. Most were small town outlets. Bell was no longer a factor after his first retirement and by that time he was being cleared on blow torch outlets. Other than knowing of Alex Jones, I’m unfamiliar with any affiliates.
The only time I heard him was driving to an evening class I took. Entertaining for the 3 months of the class. I guess he was on a 1Kw station in a city that I drove by on an interstate.
No signal from that station on the way home.
Jones...
I would come across on SW, hawking his dvds.
Bell...
He went really nuts after his 2nd wife died. Not that he was wasn't tightly wound before, but the quality of his sporadic weekend/guest appearances went straight downhill. His replacements during his "retirements" went from bad to mediocre, and the remnants of the show have generally been unlistenable for years.
The "area" CC simulcasting talkers were sold a few years back. FM went to stereo music, and the AM lost Rush, but kept C2CAM.