Bill Mann: Here's Why the Right Wing Dominates Talk Radio Today

Bill Mann: Here's Why the Right Wing Dominates Talk Radio Today: "Ever wonder why the right wing continues to dominate talk radio, even as it loses elections?

'Your Huffington Post piece showed only the tip of the iceberg,' a major talk-show figure e-mailed last month following my blog here on Rush Limbaugh's empire being built initially by giving his show away for free to hundreds of smaller-market talk stations.

My veteran radio source, assured anonymity, added, 'The main story here is vertical integration in the radio business' and the way the big urban talk stations get their programs.

Vertical integration: Precisely what the federal government has moved to ban in the television and movie industries with anti-trust actions. But the radio business has gotten a free pass."