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[US] House passes bill requiring AM radio in all new cars sold nationwide
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I wonder what it would cost to balance that out by broadcasting secular and left-wing media. Wouldn't it be rad if AM was transformed into something great? Of course even as I'm typing this I can just see the future where some startup sees a monetization strategy in AM and does something shitty with it, like filling it up with LLM generated talk shows, especially if it's low cost.
The problem is running it costs money, and the billionaires only fund the right-wing stuff.
The non-right-wing radio is NPR.
Would have to be pirate radio. You think this fcc is gonna be handing out licenses to left-wing secular media?
The UK used to have powerful AM stations which operated from ships outside of territorial waters, they're long gone except for Caroline which still exists (they even have their ship still) but as a legal station.
It's kind of challenging to do it on the land as a clandestine pirate since physics demands a large (as in hundreds of feet) aerial to radiate anything decent as well as usually a large set of radials for the aerial to work against. It's a more annoying version of the same problem amateur radio people have when using the 160 metre band. Of course it can be done, and people did it with much worse tech than what we have now, but it's not something to do at high power lightly. The voltage at the end of an AM/MW transmitter aerial is often pretty bracing for example.
Better call Christian Slater.
Good point. If Brandan Carr or whatever the fuck the cuck in charge of the FCC is named requires talk shows like Kimmel to do equal time for both candidates, it's only fair that we have both sides forced onto AM.
Sure, it'll be a bunch of ranting talking heads at 6 AM, but like others have said, you don't have to listen.
This will probably end up backfiring when Stephen Colbert or Matt Stone/Trey Parker take over AM radio with guest spots, using clips of Alex Jones on 55 AM "The Frog".
A nationwide AM radio network with syndicated shows like The Majority Report, I’ve Had It, and Breaking Points? The Reaction Podcast? Kyle Kulinski Power Hour?
Ok I made that last one up but can you imagine?
Air America lasted about 5 years in the 2000s, and it was exactly this. The Republicans would never let their stations die like Air America did.