[mylife]

Does any of that stuff work in a steel building or a fallout shelter?

AM works everywhere and works damn well.
That is why Emergency broadcasts are on AM.

[Choose Ye This Day]

I certainly hope not. I guess one can always install after-market stereos with radio receivers, but I wonder about antennae...

[KarlInOhio]

I find this hard to believe. Adding an AM & FM receiver to a sound system is cheap compared to the cost of the amps and speakers. If you already have something that plays Edison wax cylinders CDs along with an MP3 player then adding radio isn't hard. And it is really cheap compared to adding some wireless internet capable system.

[Responsibility2nd]

_{This is a slippery slope.}

_{So what can you do?}

 

_{1. You need to believe this is happening. It's now a fact, directly from the mouths of the people behind it.}

_{2. You had better start working out a strategy to strengthen your brand relationship with your audience now so they'll still seek you out when they have tens of thousands of other choices.}

3. You need to be on the TuneIn or iHeart platforms (probably both), and you need to be streaming.

_{4. If you want to fight this, you may want to consider starting with your local congressman. Congress may wish to consider legislation to require in-car receivers for safety purposes -- though I'm not big on forcing regulation on consumer preferences. But Hurricane Sandy made it clear once again that Internet and cell signals cannot be relied upon for safety, and radio is the only means of communication that stays on the air in an emergency. Removing it from cars might not go over well with consumers for that reason alone.}

_{5. You may consider having a talk with your biggest advertisers, local car dealers, to ask them to offer their input to the car companies. Pressure can change things quickly -- but be careful; this approach could backfire.}

 

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Ummmm, Isn't this exactly the reason why AM/FM radio is on its way out?

[Political Junkie Too]

Receiving a radio signal is free. Listening to streaming radio on a smartphone requires a data plan subscription, and may have monthly limits.

-PJ

[FlingWingFlyer]

I guess this would be one way for the union thugs to shut Limbaugh up.

[ASOC]

Where does the content for Iheart come from? Radio stations, yes?

Something about cutting ogg onr’s nose comes to mind

[Dahoser]

I was told there was extensive research to support the lack of interest in radio among youth and that GM researches everything to make sure they are giving consumers what they want.

As evidenced by the SOBs going bankrupt and having us bail their sorry butts out. Right.

[prisoner6]

Wrong.

[The Great RJ]

AM and FM are needed for emergency broadcasts. Internet and satellite radio just don't cut it and both may be down in an emergency. I depend on getting local information especially during weather emergencies and AM and FM are great for that.

The one item that has become next to useless is a CD player. More of us are using digital music players and it is very convenient to just plug in your MP3 player or use a Bluetooth sync with your smart phone. My wife's Ford does have a single disk CD player, but it is really an input for storing your music in a digital jukebox. Once the music is loaded you play the digital copy recorded on a hard drive in your car and have no need for CDs.

I am very disappointed with satellite radio. Aside from the Patriot conservative talk channel, I find very little in musical content that appeals to my taste. Having a service like Pandora available in my car would be great, but what kinds of costs would be incurred for using a cellular data plan for access and how reliable would the signal be in rural as well as congested urban areas?

[Doghunter]

Most cars currently produced have an Aux. audio input, by which you can run an ipod thru the Aux function in the radio.

If this function is still available in the new radioless audio system, you could basically do the same with a simple AM/FM radio as long as it has a headphone jack.

[Notary Sojac]

It would be a shame if radio disappeared from car radios, but honestly, I do not think I can remember the last time I turned my radio on, given the choices of:

The two rap/hip hop stations

The political talk station with 55% commercials, 45% talk

The three "generic boy band/girl singer/American Idol pop" stations

The two syndicated sports talk stations endlessly yammering about teams on the other side of the nation

The two "classic rock" stations playing the same old same old indefinitely

The three country stations playing the same formulaic Nashville pop/rock "country"

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

So this guy thinks that no one can buy an after-market head unit with AM and FM and have it installed in their new vehicle?

[driftless2]

I remember having to buy an FM adaptor back in the seventie because my Dodge Dart didn’t have it. Worked pretty good. If automakers decide to build cars with no radio, I’d say it’s at least twenty years or more from now. If in the next five years I ask some auto dealer if his cars have radio, and he says no, I’ll say goodbye and see another autodealer.

[This I Wonder32460]

“The only thing I listen to in my car is
satellite radio,”

Is satellite radio FREE? Or do you have to pay for it? And how much do you pay?

I went without a radio in my car for a couple of weeks and thought I would go crazy driving to and from work, listening to radio in the car cuts down on the monotony. And I have a short commute. Not sure I would want to pay to listen to radio while driving my car, it seems like nonsense to me.

[shove_it]

This nothing more than a frontal attack on conservative talk radio. There is no liberal talk radio other than NPR.

[Hardastarboard]

I can't say about whether or not AM & FM units will survive or not. I do know that I can barely listen to talk radio any more because there are too many ##@$#$%@##@@!! commercials. It's almost not worth the effort. I recently calculated that Rush actually provides commentary for about 35 minutes an hour, maybe less.

It's hard to justify spending an hour of my life to hear 35 minutes of intermittently interesting commentary. I have to listen to commercials for legal firms that help people in trouble with the IRS; commercials urging me to "BUY GOLD!" (no doubt at $1.50 to the dollar of its actual value); mattress commercials; "charitable organizations" begging for money; yada, yada, yada.

TV is every bit as bad.

[DallasDeb]

I’ll buy a radio to keep in my car—and extra batteries.

[Fresh Wind]

Somebody’s pushing for replacing free AM and FM reception with services that come with monthly fees.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Yawn. Blogger B. Eric Rhoads spent four paragraphs telling us of his extreme prescience before getting to the point.