Radio remained vigorous and outgrew public television after NPR launched

Evidence

The debut of NPR’s new flagship, All Things Considered, ran an hour and twenty-eight minutes, beginning with live coverage of Vietnam protests before turning to a lighter segment on small-town barber shops in “this age of unshorn locks, with shagginess transformed into a lifestyle.” Over time, NPR would gain audiences even larger than public television’s, proving the older broadcast platform yet had real life in it. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 578