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2023-04-13 -Great Cultural Revolution
Ford Removing AM Radio In 2024 Models - Killing Conservative Talk Radio - They Need to Hear From the F-150 Base Right Now!
[MediaMatters] Fox's Mark Levin: Car manufacturers won't include AM radio because “they finally figured out how to attack conservative talk radio”.
Can one get such things as a cell phone app nowadays? If yes, then a car aradio is not needed. Separately, I just read that car dealers are currently sitting on a glut of cars — in which case angering the car-purchasing masses, hitherto their primary market, is as unwise as Bud Light switching to a trans spokesperson.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-04-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ]  Top
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#1 
I don't need a truck radio.
I listen to the voices in my head.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-13 00:29||   2023-04-13 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Now that Rush is gone, radio and television within 100 miles of ATL is not worth listening to or watching anyway.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-04-13 02:32||   2023-04-13 02:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Simple, order the vehicle w/o the 5x overpriced radio and have your own better aftermarket radio install for 1/4 the price.
Posted by NN2N1 2023-04-13 05:54||   2023-04-13 05:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Or stream via iHeart or SiriusXM. You get a lot more channel choices
Posted by Frank G 2023-04-13 06:55||   2023-04-13 06:55|| Front Page Top

#5 They still charge extra for the rear bumper?
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-04-13 09:15||   2023-04-13 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Or stream via iHeart or SiriusXM. You get a lot more channel choices.
Frank G that's what these two want.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-04-13 09:26||   2023-04-13 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 I renew my SiriusXM subscription every year just to listen to Real Jazz, though I do listen to some of the other channels from time to time.

I haven't listened to any talk radio in decades.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-04-13 09:44||   2023-04-13 09:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Got that right Besoeker
Posted by Chris 2023-04-13 09:53||   2023-04-13 09:53|| Front Page Top

#9 If the radio/stereo systems in the new vehicles have Bluetooth, which they most certainly will, it should be easy to do as Frank G suggests and then you can listen to stations from all over the world.

But I was listening to John and Ken one day on LA's KFI extolling the virtues of AM radio in case of natural or man made catastrophes such as the recent storms in southern California. If the electricity is out and your house is buried in snow, the battery powered AM radio might be the only source of outside information you have left.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-04-13 11:42||   2023-04-13 11:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Conservative AM talk radio is a way for young people and blue collar types to get an introduction to conservative, traditional American ides and attitudes, away from the immersion of public education and broadcast television. Removing it is another progressive method to chip away one of the few sources of content we want them to hear. Many just discover it and the humor and variety draws them into thinking.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-04-13 11:56||   2023-04-13 11:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Hopefully the marketing campaign will be suitably inclusive.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-04-13 12:35||   2023-04-13 12:35|| Front Page Top

#12 AM radio screws up their telemetry of your car.
Posted by mossomo 2023-04-13 12:58||   2023-04-13 12:58|| Front Page Top

#13 The reason they're dropping AM radios is that the drive moters for the EV's they're pushing have always made horrendous electical noise, shielding is expensive and tricky, and they're going to pretend they've fixed the problem by making it so you won't notice.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-04-13 13:44||   2023-04-13 13:44|| Front Page Top

#14 So in other words, removing AM radios is a twofer win for the Dems. It is brilliant.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-04-13 15:51||   2023-04-13 15:51|| Front Page Top

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