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U.S. Lawmakers To Hold AM Radio Law Hearing Next Week
Normally, listening to politicians yammer on about a new law is like watching paint dry. But if you're a glutton for punishment and you like AM radio, mark June 6th @10 in the morning on your calendar. That's the day the U.S. Energy and Commerce Committee and its Communications and Technology Subcommittee (even the title is yawn-inducing) will be calling experts to a hearing about the future of AM radio in cars.
The entire proceeding will be streamed and if you have nothing better to do and are curious about who might show up and what they'll have to say, you can tune in here. Which, come to think of it, may have fewer listeners than AM itself!
AM Radio Hearing Will Be Held June 6
Meanwhile, a Boston Globe writer believes the American government should tune out when it comes to forcing the band on carmakers.
AM radio in your car? Don’t let Congress decide.
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Although I doubt anyone will want to pay minute-by-minute attention to this, here's where you can follow the AM Radio hearings live.
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This hearing is very focused on the aspect of having an AM radio around in an emergency, when cell phones may run out of juice and FM stations may not reach as far as their counterparts on the other band.
The fallacy of this, which no one seems to have brought up yet, is that if we accept the premise that certain members of younger generations have no idea what AM even is (and surveys have shown that's often the case) how will they know to tune into it when something's wrong if they don't even know it exists?
I love AM and want it to continue, but that's the answer I'm waiting to hear.
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It's pretty unusual when both Democrats and Republicans agree on anything - let alone the need for AM radio. But that's what happened at the hearings in Washington Tuesday.
Congress fights to keep AM radio as some automakers want to let broadcasting method fall by wayside
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RadioActive wrote:
This hearing is very focused on the aspect of having an AM radio around in an emergency, when cell phones may run out of juice and FM stations may not reach as far as their counterparts on the other band.
The fallacy of this, which no one seems to have brought up yet, is that if we accept the premise that certain members of younger generations have no idea what AM even is (and surveys have shown that's often the case) how will they know to tune into it when something's wrong if they don't even know it exists?
I love AM and want it to continue, but that's the answer I'm waiting to hear.
It’s like trying to argue for the retention of shortwave. I’m enough of a radio nerd that I know what shortwave is, but my fellow Millennials have had no exposure to that technology. Go down to Gen Z and AM would be a mystery to them, though some may have parents who listen to AM.
Oddly enough I used to work with a guy born in the 90s, and he once told me the only radio he listens to is on AM - 590 in Toronto to be exact.
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Re: U.S. Lawmakers To Hold AM Radio Law Hearing Next Week
It's pretty unusual when both Democrats and Republicans agree on anything - let alone the need for AM radio. But that's what happened at the hearings in Washington Tuesday.
Congress fights to keep AM radio as some automakers want to let broadcasting method fall by wayside