Yep. One additional thing that just occurred to me. The existence of podcasts which can be downloaded to a phone automatically and listened to offline is probably the death of any type of Doctrine coming back to radio stations. Almost everyone has a smart phone and podcasts are largely ...
free through various streaming platforms. And there as many, many podcasts representing a myriad of viepwpoints. You'll find for more left/liberal content on podcasts that can be found on AM radio, even on stations that are open to such shows.
The idea that anything like the FD could exist in an age when most media is asynchronous and user-selected is ridiculous. As it was, most "responses" or "divergent viewpoints" were dumped at odd times, but if people WERE watching at those times, they'd sit through them.
How does that work for YouTube, TikTok, blogs, or Bluesky? Will they force "different viewpoints" into your feed? You will still scroll/skip past them, and I guarantee anything that forced them into the middle of other content would spawn 1000 hacks and workarounds.