Map religious radio at scale

Updated: 2026.03.26 1H ago 1 sources
Combine a national survey, the FCC station registry, and large‑scale automated audio scraping to map what religious radio actually says, who owns it, who listens, and where stations are located. Using computational content analysis on hundreds of thousands of hours of audio lets researchers quantify political commentary and musical programming patterns across geography and ownership. — This creates an empirical foundation to assess religious broadcasters’ role in political persuasion, local media ecosystems, and regulatory oversight.

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Janakee Chavda 2026.03.26 100% relevant
Pew’s project: a 5,023‑respondent American Trends Panel survey, an FCC‑licensed station database, and roughly 440,000 hours of recorded live web broadcasts from July 2025.
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