Wyppl were s’pposed to opt for pay radio just like they have pay tv.
Terrestrial radio went latin, chinese, farsi, hindi, etc.
Radio isn’t dead. Corporations consolidated the airwaves and sold out the public.
Audiences dropped the tired playlists and went to streaming services instead.
It goes much deeper than that. (I've included the more high profile objectives. Judge for yourself if Moscow succeeded.)
Communists let us know they were going to hijack the USA.
And they did it. They told us ahead of time, and we were too stupid and lazy and arrogant to do anything about it.
From their agenda as recorded by Congress in 1963:
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.