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Episodes · 12 months
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Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Mar 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 1 of 3,584, 0 of 3,862, 0 of 4,115, 0 of 4,226, 3 of 4,731, 1 of 4,438, 0 of 4,230, 1 of 4,319, 0 of 4,515, 0 of 4,419, 0 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
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+21 via 14 narrower
On record
15
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Where they standLast discussed
5mo ago
Jun 3, 2026
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 2Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp6 people
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- Radio as resilient medium3 people · 50%
- Industry decline and transition3 people · 50%
Radio as resilient medium
Shortwave and AM radio frequencies remain vital for communication, national security, and reaching global audiences.
3 people · 3 episodes
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TheReportOfTheWeekUnrated
The speaker believes shortwave radio remains a highly relevant and viable medium for reaching audiences in East Asia.
“the medium never truly died in East Asia. It's still there and it's still going way stronger over there uh than it is say in Europe or North America.”
VORW Podcast · Feb 2026 · 1 episode · 34K views on this topicCB
Shortwave radio transmissions are effectively unstoppable because it is impossible to fully jam all frequencies across the entire spectrum.
“You can't jam the entire frequency of all short wave, right? Like every single frequency.”
Stuff You Should Know · Apr 2026 · 2 episodes · 27K views on this topic
AM radio remains an essential component of the national security alert system due to its ability to reach wide areas.
“It is like a national security alert system essentially. We'll talk a little more about that later, but that's why um the Clear Channel thing is a thing”
Stuff You Should Know · Nov 2025 · 0 episodes · 0 views on this topicIndustry decline and transition
Traditional terrestrial radio is suffering due to poor talent management, failure to adapt to digital shifts, and restrictive practices.
3 people · 3 episodes
BS
Terrestrial radio is failing because they have alienated and lost talented broadcasters.
“radio's in trouble you know terrestrial radio is in trouble because they've ran off all the talent all the talent now is over here and or at least trying to be here or establish some real estate here”
Timcast IRL · Mar 2025 · 3 episodes · 618K views on this topic
Funk Flex contends that traditional radio broadcasting is dead for individuals who lack a strong personal brand or a presence on digital and social media.
“if you're a guy who got a couple slick words and you want to go on the radio no one's going to care about you if you um you i'm going to give a good radio lesson that you can also apply to just being a personality or rapper dj you have to have your social media cracking”
Million Dollaz Worth of Game · Feb 2021 · 1 episode · 862K views on this topic
Broadcasters were slow to embrace podcasting, mistakenly viewing it as a minor threat to their live radio audience.
“It wasn't for maybe another decade that radio stations, broadcasters started saying, "Oh, this podcasting is not a flash in the pan. It could actually be eaten our lunch."”
This Week in Tech · Mar 2026 · 1 episode · 7K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
In the transcripts
Episodes discussing this topicIncludes episodes tagged with a narrower subject. Each is marked with the subject it came in through.
A Way-Back Bertcast + The Infamous Flying D*ldo Story With Mike Calta + Huicho in 2012 | Bertcast #2
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Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record May 2020