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Over the last few weeks, we've been airing our special

series, The Divided Dial, hosted by Katie Thornton. The first season was all about the right-wing

takeover of AM and FM radio. This season has been all about Shortwave radio. It's not much talked about nowadays,

but Shortwave has had a storied history

that Katie laid out over the course of the first three episodes.

If you haven't heard those,

definitely pause this one and catch up first.

This final episode features the story of a present-day battle playing out between two very different groups.

Here's Katie.

Okay, 1107 a.m. May 18th, 2024.

A little over a year ago, I tried, for the first time ever, to pick up a shortwave radio broadcast. I'm out in Wisconsin.

As if on cue. Okay. It was a really nice spring day, if a little windy. So I was outside.

Powered up. So this is FM.

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