[Mike Darancette]

“It is important to note that stations with incidental music use – news, talk and sports radio – would not pay for music,” said NAB spokesman Dennis Wharton earlier this month in a statement.

The RAT Congress would be nuts to allow more access to talk radio.

[a fool in paradise]

Mandatory FM in cellphones means mandatory NPR and Left of the dial Pacifica communist-green party radio (which also have “lower ratings” and are exempted from the RIAA’s new performance tax on other stations).

[a fool in paradise]

Rush, Hannity, Beck, et al are on AM radio (along with local news, weather, emergency info, etc).

but there are already apps to stream radio content to cellphones anyway.

You can probably go to a dollar store and find a more energy efficient FM/AM transitor radio.