I had a couple of cars in the early 2000s that had both, which I liked until I traded and ended up with CD only and I started using MP3s with an FM transmitter and eventually Bluetooth and USB.
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Sen. Edward Markey says a BIG NO to NO AM/FM radio tuners in cars....
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There are significant regions of a couple of western states that have minimal standard broadcast (AM & FM) service as well.
I think that other thread mentioned previously in this thread went through a few of the technical reasons why auto companies like Tesla are dropping AM reception capability.
I'm sure it's still *in* the vehicle; it's simply a software switch that's being activated to eliminate the use of the function.
Just like it is that most cell phones have an FM receiver, yet software required by the carrier disables it's functionality.
Ed Marley is the biggest POS on Capitol Hill
He has always carried water for the cable industry..... the 1994 deregulation bill has his greasy paw prints all over it.
When I was still in elected office in his congressional district, I had to deal with him and he was a lightweight 30 years ago
Why don't cities and towns have any oversight of the cable companies they have franchise agreements with?
ED MARKEY is why.
Ask a cable company to place a PEG channel in a certain spot and the answer will be go screw
rate controls? gone
he should stick to what he knows, which was what he did before he got elected to replace Torbert MacDonald.... sell ice cream cones out of a truck
He has always carried water for the cable industry..... the 1994 deregulation bill has his greasy paw prints all over it.
When I was still in elected office in his congressional district, I had to deal with him and he was a lightweight 30 years ago
Why don't cities and towns have any oversight of the cable companies they have franchise agreements with?
ED MARKEY is why.
Ask a cable company to place a PEG channel in a certain spot and the answer will be go screw
rate controls? gone
he should stick to what he knows, which was what he did before he got elected to replace Torbert MacDonald.... sell ice cream cones out of a truck
No Apple phones have an FM receiver as there is no earphone jack; the earphone wires double as an FM antenna in cellphones that have FM.
And a rapidly decreasing percentage of non-Apple phones have FM any more. I don't know the exact percentage, but was told several years ago that less than half are now FM enabled.
The deregulation of '94/'95 was a direct reaction to the Docket 80-90 actions of the late 1990's. So many new stations were added, particularly in smaller and medium markets and so many stations were allowed to move and upgrade that we had half of all US radio stations reporting no profit.
The 1994 deregulation was the best possible attempt at keeping radio somewhat viable, particularly outside the top 25 to 30 markets.
My several years old Moto Power has FM but I may have used it less than a dozen times. It also has Bluetooth but I don't usually leave that powered on as it sucks power relatively quickly even though my battery is huge.
My Samsung S20 FE, which is 2 years old now, has no earphone jack, so there is probably no FM chip in it. Not that I'd bother with it anyway since TuneIn has just about everything I want to listen to.
My Lenovo (Motorola branded) phones have the FM app and a headphone jack.
My old Moto phone had FM but I almost never used it. I've seen where other Samsung phones I've had would have the FM chip with some carriers but Verizon didn't allow them to be set to be usable.
Probably because 99.998% of smartphone users could care less whether their phone can receive local radio stations?
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