What a week for radio and talk about good timing. In the past 48 hours a new study was released revealing that talk radio is predominantly conservative. In addition, a bipartisan bill was introduced in both the House and the Senate seeking to expand the number of low power FM radio stations in cities and suburbs across the country. This is not about apples and oranges, this is about demonstrating the need for diversifying the radio and providing the means to do so. On the one hand we have a statistical analysis concluding just how politically one-sided radio broadcasting is followed by promising legislation that aims to open these airwaves up to local communities to regain fresh, diverse sounds.

Free Press and the the Center for American Progress confirms in its report, "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio," that talk radio, one of the most widely used media formats in America, is dominated almost exclusively by conservatives. It concludes that the gap between conservative and progressive talk radio is the result of multiple structural problems in the U.S. and suggests that diversifying radio ownership would lead to more diverse programming.