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Re:Is Am Radio Dead? by rsync on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @08:03PM (#34604865)
One of our cars is a 2023 Audi e-tron and it has no AM radio.

My immediate question was, was it harder and more expensive to specify a radio module/part with FM, but not AM ?

It seems like a design flex and not an actual cost or UI affordance, etc.

It is annoying because sports broadcasts in the Bay Area are typically on AM.

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Re:Is Am Radio Dead? by Johnythree on Thursday February 02, 2023 @01:33AM (#34622939)
The problem isn't in fitting an AM radio, but in suppressing the Electromagnetic interference from the Electric motors and circuity.

Hopefully the FCC will wake up and insist that they fix the interference, and not just hide it by not fitting an AM radio.

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