AM Conservative Talk Radio Faces Huge Threat

New American Prophet ^ | May 8, 2023 | Jeff Crouere

[C210N]

I have a car like that. But, the other one is fine.

AM radios can break, or some component degrades causing the bad reception.

[Fireone]

Red Eye Radio is the best. I faithfully listen to Chris Plante on WMAL mornings, and Red Eye, either live or podcast most days.

[Wuli]

OMG they just wanted everyone to click on the article, just to read down through wasted paragraphs to find the real title and the real punch line, which is:

Some Automakers Eliminating the AM Radio

[Cinnamontea]

Rush took am radio with him on his journey.

Yep, he did. I only listen to podcasts now. They're better than what's left of talk radio.

[Myrddin]

Before I left San Diego, I would listen to Rush on KOGO AM 600. I did that for years, then suddenly one morning the KOGO signal was overwhelmed with horrible hash. This started happening daily at 9 AM Pacific. I smelled a rat. After some investigation, I tracked the problem to my neighbor across the street. He had purchased some special machine tools that needed 3 phase AC. We didn't have 3 phase wired to our residential area, so he resorted to a single phase to 3 phase converter. That was the source of the wretched hash coming in via my AC line. We shared a common transformer.

Having identified the source of the problem, I carried a portable AM radio over to my neighbor's house and explained the problem. We walked out the garage and switched the converter on/off and definitively identified the source of the problem. I provided him a list of filters that he could pick up at Western Radio that would filter the noise before it headed out to the transformer. End of problem. He just didn't know about the problem or means to resolve it.

[PGR88]

I no longer turn on my car radio. Rush took am radio with him on his journey.

Yes. Once Rush Limbaugh died, our "conservative" talk radio station seemed to die with it.

the only non-left station on the entire dial is the "Station of the Cross" Catholic Radio. Which is why I expect them to come under severe attack soon.

[JonPreston]

Yep, they hate Catholics. Research what the Lincoln Brigade did to nuns, living and dead, in Spain in the late 1930s. I expect that Antifa will transform into a new Lincoln Brigade shortly.

[W.]

Yeah, same for TV, 20 min of program, 10 min commercials. Too bad we can’t install commercial-killer programs on TV’s like we can on our computers...

[George from New England]

As you see ‘things’ are manufactured and the FCC, agency tasked with preventing such interference, doesn’t care. If it kills AM radio then the deep state mission is advanced.

[Bonemaker]

“I find it distracting to have so many commercial breaks.”

I’m getting carpal tunnel from muting the repetitious and wretched My Pillow and Balance of Nature ads every 5 minutes on Fox.

[enraged]

Funny you mentioned car radios. I was shopping for a nice system for my garage/ shop and most shelf stereo systems didn’t have am. Finally found a good one and it has amazing sound and reception for its size. Better sound than my old tower speakers even.

[AlaskaErik]

I haven’t listened to AM radio since the 70s.

[subterfuge]

How do I listen to podcasts in my 2004 Mazda B2300 truck?

[TBP]

They’ve been trying to shut down AM at least since
August 1, 1988.

[TBP]

I cannot get WMAL on FM due to two Baltimore stations on either side of it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Are you asking a rhetorical question and don't really want to do it? Or are you serious?'

If you are serious and you have a factory or aftermarket radio, it is actually quite simple to play podcasts through your radio. I had the same problem with my 2004 Ford Expedition - there was no auxiliary input to the radio.

You need to be a bit mechanically inclined to do this, but it is easy.

You need an "FM antenna bypass modulator." It's a small box with an antenna input, an antenna output, and an audio input. You unplug your antenna wire from your car radio, then plug the antenna wire into the modulator and plug the modulator into the car radio antenna input. You then send your audio signal to the modulator. You tune your car radio to the frequency the modulator is sending out. Bingo -- you have audio from your device playing on your car radio.

I don't remember what brand I bought (that Expedition is long gone). But you can find them on Amazon for about $30. See: iSimple IS31 Antenna Bypass FM Modulator for Factory or Aftermarket Car Radios.

Apple dropped the 3.5 mm headphone jack from the iPhones, so you'll need a way to get audio out of the phone into the modulator. The easiest and cheapest way to do that is buy a Apple Lightning to 3.5 mm Headphone Jack Adapter.

Also get a 6 foot extension cable (3.5 mm female x 3.5 mm male) to run from the car radio to your phone. When I had my rig running, all I had to do was pick up the extension wire on the floor, plug it into the phone, tune the radio to the correct FM station and I was off to the races.

[raccoonradio]

There’s all kinds of electrical interference. Some stations are simulcasting on FM but many of these
are weak “FM translators”.
More often people are turning to
streaming audio at night.

In Boston iHeart’s WRKO, WBZ AM and
WXKS AM run conservative talk (WBZ, one show at night). All are available online
(can hear via Bluetooth in your car)
and all are also on HD radio HD2 channels
(need special radio, like one portable
Best Buy sells for $40)

Some cities do have powerful FMs
with conservative talk...as well as
powerful NPR affiliates.

[raccoonradio]

That should just say ‘streaming audio
‘

[Osage Orange]

Agreed....

Damn I miss Rush!!

[AppyPappy]

Podcasts. The WW2 Podcast with Angus Wallace is really good as is Ray Harris’s history of WW2..