HERESY

AM radio is being removed from many cars

(Thanks to Steve K, who says "I'm keeping my garage locked.")

Comments

[cfjk]

Have they run out of catalytic convertors?

[man tom]

With flying cars on the horizon, no need for AM radio or traffic reports, but it is hard to imagine a world without orange traffic cones.

[Clankie]

You'll have to modulate your own amplitude now.

[nursecindy]

If they do away with AM radio how am I going to listen to my beloved Atlanta Braves? I protest!

[Rod]

nursecindy, when I lived in Rhode Island, I listened to Texas Rangers games on WBAP, a clear-channel station in Fort Worth that was the Rangers' flagship station. I listened to WBAP one time all the way from Fort Worth to Flagstaff.

The real value here is for weather- and traffic-related reporting. FM is for music; you don't get breaking news and weather. And in rural areas, AM is often all you can get (bear in mind that "rural" in Texas is something altogether different from "rural" in the East where the decisions are made).

We need AM.

[Rod]

Notice that most of the manufacturers getting rid of AM are American or European makes. Most of the ones keeping it are Asian brands.

So...over the last 40 or so years, which set has proven itself over and over again to be smarter and make better cars? Yep, the Asians who, interestingly, aren't dumping AM.

[Ruthenium]

AM radio is dead. Corporate radio did that.

Also, the interference from modern electronics have raised the noise floor where static covers up distant and not so distant signals.

[Pullet Surprise]

Did you hear about the guy in Florida that crashed a stolen car into a building while trying to get the Dolphin's game on an AM radio? Turns out he kept pushing in the cigarette lighter. What? They did away with cigarette lighters too?

[Pullet Surprise]

This has been going on for years. I had my AM radio removed (stolen) from my car which was connected to the FM radio and the cassette player. Heard the only safe car model that thieves will avoid taking the AM radio is the Yugo - those radios only picked up eastern European stations.

[Marc]

Somewhere Wolfman Jack is howling. Without AM radio there would be no American Graffiti soundtrack or Wolfman Jack.

[PirateBoy, Boss Radio, KHJ 930]

Anyone else on the Geezer bus remember taking your AM transistor radio to the beach, and actually listening to music on it?

As Steely Dan once irasang: "No static at all..."