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Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars by michaelt on Monday October 07, 2024 @05:54AM (#41764402)
Well, there's also the data point that demand is so low the AM radio industry has literally gone to congress and asked to make receivers mandatory.
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Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars by dartos on Monday October 07, 2024 @06:31AM (#41764594)
Consumer demand in populated areas sure, but out in the boonies digital radio doesn’t work as well.

Not being popular isn’t a reason to declare something as dead or useless.

Tho none of that is a reason to force auto makers to include AM radio.

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Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars by stickfigure on Monday October 07, 2024 @09:55AM (#41766055)
> Not being popular isn’t a reason to declare something as dead or useless.

Spectrum is a finite, shared resource. Especially these lower frequency bands.

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Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars by dartos on Monday October 07, 2024 @11:40AM (#41767110)
And AM has use as an emergency utility and FM is more accessible than digital radio.
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Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars by rblatz on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @07:37AM (#41776208)
Why do you keep jumping from AM to digital radio? What does that even mean, are you talking about XM? You do know FM exists and is analog, right?
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Re:Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars by dartos on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @08:49AM (#41776795)
Digital radio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_radio

The commenter with the teslas was saying that AM is dead and FM is nearly dead.

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