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R&R Gets it Wrong

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smedge2006

In its series of moments that changed radio history, Radio and Records is proclaiming on its website that

"(in 1974) the Senate passed a bill to give the FCC authority to require than all radios selling for more than $15 a year be able to receive AM and FM."

http://www.radioandrecords.com

The key word being the Senate. That bill never passed the House and never got signed into law.



There was never a law mandating FM reception on radios of any price. I bought an AM-only radio in 1979 for $29.95.

Thanks R&R for researching the archives with the same thoroughness with which you covered consolidation and its effects on the industry.
 
By the same token, such a mandate was never needed. By 1975, it was clear to equipment manufacturers and auto makers that it was in their best interest to include FM in the radios they built. Plus, they didn't have to pay any additional royalty for including that band. Which is a major difference between FM and HD, in my opinion.
 
Let's also not forget this is the "new R&R"... the one that Billboard bought a couple of years ago. This R&R is sadly a mere shadow of the old one so errors such as this are to be expected.
 
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