If you have a few hours to waste, you can read the full report here.
Of course if you're a semi-sentient being, you're probably asking
yourself why anyone would waste money to "prove" something no one
disputed.

It's because behind this silliness is a very serious attempt
to use the government to censor the airwaves. Talk radio exploded in
the late 1980s after the Reagan administration did away with the
archaic "Fairness Doctrine," which stipulated that because the airwaves
are "public" stations must be balanced in their programming. So for
years a bunch of bureaucrats sat around deciding what was balanced and
what wasn't.

Once the free-market took over,...

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If you have a few hours to waste, you can read the full report here.
Of course if you're a semi-sentient being, you're probably asking
yourself why anyone would waste money to "prove" something no one
disputed.

It's because behind this silliness is a very serious attempt
to use the government to censor the airwaves. Talk radio exploded in
the late 1980s after the Reagan administration did away with the
archaic "Fairness Doctrine," which stipulated that because the airwaves
are "public" stations must be balanced in their programming. So for
years a bunch of bureaucrats sat around deciding what was balanced and
what wasn't.

Once the free-market took over, conservative talk dominated. One can
use a variety of reasons to explain why, but the simplest and best
explanation is that conservatives were an under served segment of the
market.