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Re:A Cold, Harsh Reality for Radio by mikeash on Sunday March 31, 2013 @12:56PM (#5469244)
Those are good reasons to think about general emergency communication, but bad reasons to keep building antiquated AM/FM radio tuners into every single new car. There have to be better ways.
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Re:A Cold, Harsh Reality for Radio by knowtheory on Sunday March 31, 2013 @01:01PM (#5469261)
That's what i'm saying. AM/FM is not antiquated, and there is no suitable replacement for broadcast technology.

The business model is fucked for a pile of reasons, but when we're talking about reaching large numbers of people in a relatively fault tolerant way, there is no competition to broadcast.

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