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Originally Posted by ctc17
I wonder how much longer the am and fm analog broadcast format will be around.
These freaks and companies in charge have no issue making huge changes to obsolete a technology that works for the profit and to cut rural people off.
They killed analog cellular and it took phone service away from lots of rural ranches and farms because digital has hard distance limits. They got rid of analog ntsc tv and we all know how well that works.
If they can get rid of Rush and other conservative talk they will kill the AM band.
Then for the FM band the company that holds control on that HD crap would like to get rid of analog and take over. They can fit way more stations in the same space and have a much lower transmitter power.
Then they would come out with some crappy HD radio converter box from china that lasts 6 months.
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Some of us prefer to live in denial! I hope the huge installed number of car radios keeps AM/FM alive for years to come. Around here new FM stations keep coming on the air, so it's not as though there's a lack of interest in the format from that end.