Comment FM and AM should be retained. (Score 1) 282
There is no valid reason to take AM radios out of vehicles, some of the most powerful stations that are the ones that are signed up with EBS (Emergency Broadcast System) are AM stations, like the ultra powerful KFI in Los Angeles. In a huge earthquake or nuclear attack you would tune in KFI for information. It was all set up that way years ago. You can pick it up pretty far away. At high altitudes I heard from Tennessee.
I'm not usually one to demand government mandates, but the FCC is completely within it's stated area of management to demand all vehicles sold in America that have any kind of radio that radio should pick up AM AND FM. And that's what they should do.
Older folks will remember when TV sets had an click tuner for VHF and an analog tuner for UHF. You had to get up and tune in the UHF station desired, like channel 28, PBS in Los Angeles back then. The FCC mandated a click tuner (equal ease) for UHF like VHF had. And the world didn't end. Without that UHF stations would have struggled. But the FCC rightly mandated change to encourage the use of UHF. UHF would have died without that.
And AM will die without a mandate.