AM radio faces a potentially existential threat.
Now, members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have crafted a bill in an effort to save AM radio.
A group including broadcasters, many Republican and Democratic lawmakers, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the“In 9/11, the south Towers were down. Nobody could get signals. There was no data. No internet. You couldn’t get anything but a radio signal on a transmitter,” said Mary Sandberg Boyle, vice president and general manager at WGN Radio AM 720. “In disaster situations when there are tornadoes and things, the cell towers aren’t working.
One problem is that AM radio frequencies have issues with electric vehicles — drivers hear buzzing over the radio content. Now, EV manufacturers like Ford are pushing software updates to correct the problem on 2023 and earlier models. However, the software won’t work if cell phone towers are not functional.
“The initial thought process was, ‘well, we can just stop making them because who listens to AM anyways?’” said Nettles. Some manufacturers argue that AM audiences are shrinking and there’s plenty niche programming found on podcasts, online or on satellite radio. However, just leaving AM in the dust may not be the natural evolution of radio.
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