Hannity Joins Mark Levin Protesting Removal of AM Radio in Electric Vehicles As 'Direct Hit' To Cons
hate radio can still be found on FM, SXM, streaming, and podcasts, but they're afraid losing their techphobic geezer audience, they don't seem to care about Them ditching car CD players
https://www.mediaite.com/radio/hannity-echoes-mark-levin-raging-at-removal-of-am-radio-in-electric-vehicles-as-a-direct-hit-to-conservatives/
“It’s incomprehensible to me,” Hannity said, noting how customers are looking for more options when it comes to vehicles, not less. “It’s not complicated to put in a radio system that allows you to have AM FM, Sirius XM, or the ability to plug in your own music from your own phone.”
“This would be a direct hit politically on conservative talk radio in particular, which is what most people go to AM radio to listen to,” Hannity said. “So is there a political component to it? Certainly feels like it.”
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Is it time to dump the 1940's technology? If that means the death of a few hundred hate talk radio stations, I think I could live with it.
no demand for AM radios from younger car buyers, but we all know they're indoctrinated by the schools and Hollywood
I bet I have never switched my truck radio to AM. That would only happen if I was on the road and wanted to listen to a football broadcast or something. I don't take that many road trips and am usually rocking out when I do. 
Hannity and others soon followed.
When it was renegotiation time, Limbaugh's syndication company (which he of course owned) made it clear: from that point forward, Limbaugh would only appear on FM stations. All of a sudden, the billionaire class who owned all those crummy AM stations actually had to spend some of their own money to buy up FM stations across the country. Of course, they were pissed about that, since a decade prior, the ClearChannel (aka IHeartMedia) radio station buying spree had significantly raised the barriers to entry in the FM radio market.
AM radio now mostly consists of marginal stations with low to nonexistent ratings. One of my favorite examples was a station in the Twin Cities in the late '90s, "CatholicFamilyRadio" (yes, all one word). They were so low-rated that they couldn't even generate an Arbitron number. Their replacement in the '00s, "Relevant Radio", has fared no better than CFR did. CFR made unlistenable hate radio for far-right Catholic radtrads. (Ir)-Relevant Radio plagiarizes the same formula, and it even features some of the same "talent", showing that they have not learned a thing in more than two decades on the air. They are propped up by radtrad billionaires like Tom Monaghan, and would not survive a week in any competitive radio market.
Hannity et al should stop whining. Their beloved free market will provide. I guarantee that if the AM band was deleted from car radios tomorrow, all sorts of radio adapter gizmos would immediately become available so that the hate radio addicts could still get their fix. That is, the ones who were too dumb to figure out how to work a computer or phone (or simply change the radio dial). 
