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Ford Reconsiders, Now Keeping AM Radio
- Thread starter DavidEduardo
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WBT shouldn't be on this list. It has had an FM signal since the mid 90s so it could be heard at night west of the city.
Yes! WLW, it's mentioned now, along with two more big ones: WBAP and KMOX.
I'm on the fence with that one, as the FM only covers the western region of Charlotte, leaving the AM as the only choice for most listeners in Charlotte.
...and a great signal that covers ND. Do they still play Oldies on the weekend? That's something I would like to see more of these News/Talk outlets do in the evening and weekend.
Yes! A few morning talk shows, but then yes...
True. This is probably in part because seemingly everyone drives Teslas around here, and those haven't had AM for years....
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Ford and Tesla are now bedfellows:
www.nbcnews.com
Will Tesla follow suit and keep AM radio in their cars? I doubt it.
Ford EVs will use Tesla charging tech in surprise partnership between rival automakers
Under the agreement current Ford owners will be granted access to more than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers across the U.S. and Canada, starting early next year.
Will Tesla follow suit and keep AM radio in their cars? I doubt it.
What do you mean “keep”?
There are around 1.3 million Tesla cars on the road today, versus 283 million total motor vehicles on the road.
Around 0.5% of all vehicles is hardly "everyone". If it were the share of a radio station, it would be last.
Correct. It's hard to keep track.
Ford's announcement matters not because of its EVs (and Tesla is an all-EV company), but because it was about to become the first company to drop AM radios from its ICE cars. Yes, as part of its "reconsideration", it's putting AM back in the Lightning and the Mach-E, but don't expect EV makers to suddenly start making AM available.
Had Ford gone ahead and not suffered any consequences, there would have been very little reason for GM and others to keep putting AM in cars. This probably slows that.
People should not assume because one car maker said it will continue to add AM for one year that any other car maker will do the same. This is why the legislation hasn't been withdrawn. It's still in the pipeline. What Ford said only applies to Ford.
In many markets (Cleveland specifically), AM already IS non-existent.
The bill doesn’t need to be withdrawn. There’s a very good chance the bill’s proponents are all going “Hooray, we saved AM radio” and forget about it until a new Congress is seated two years later, and Ford tries again to remove AM.
The “hooray, we _________” mentality runs deep.
Meanwhile, Homeland Security deemed AM important enough to install hardened radio AM transmitters at various locations nationwide.
I'm sure those millions weren't spent on a whim. This article about it was in 2011, just 12 years ago. I think I might have read somewhere that a couple FMs here and there were also included, but I'm not 100% certain about that one.
rbr.com
I'm sure those millions weren't spent on a whim. This article about it was in 2011, just 12 years ago. I think I might have read somewhere that a couple FMs here and there were also included, but I'm not 100% certain about that one.
Homeland Security installing transmitters nationwide | Radio & Television Business Report
RBR-TVBR heard an engineer in a large market had mentioned Homeland Security came to their tower site and put up a building, designed as a
rbr.com
Considering that there is only one signal that comes close to fully covering the market, that is not surprising.
How does one "target" a demographic that's nonexistent on the AM band?
Well, to start, maybe better advertising to raise awareness that it's still a thing?
And then maybe better programming that younger people want (most will go for streaming regardless because of better quality, though, but even with all the man made RFI, AM can sound better than it does.
Be that as it may, I guess it's a complicated problem, and if there were a viable solution worthy of trying, someone would've tried it by now. Oh, well....
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