[conservative98]

After speaking with policy leaders about the importance of AM broadcast radio as a part of the emergency alert system, we've decided to include it on all 2024 @Ford & @LincolnMotorCo vehicles. For any owners of Ford EVs without AM broadcast capability, we’ll offer a software update.

Customers can currently listen to AM radio content in a variety of ways in our vehicles – including via streaming – and we will continue to innovate to deliver even better in-vehicle entertainment and emergency notification options in the future.

Thanks to our product development and manufacturing teams for their quick response to make this change for our customers. — Jim Farley (@jimfarley98) May 23, 2023

[HamiltonJay]

The funny thing is having AM is literally a software setting the cars were always physically capable of having AM they just were not going to let you access it

See how they “fixed” the 23 models? A software update

[Myrddin]

My local Fox affiliate was on AM 1240 in Pocatello, AM 590 Idaho Falls. Today, FM 92.1 Pocatello, FM 103.6 Idaho Falls, AM 590 Idaho Falls. The AM 1240 was retired. The station also streams. Over the weekend, the FM 92.1 and FM 103.6 were dead. No carrier over the air. The internet stream was working fine. The station has been a train wreck for years. Mis-timed content with commercials playing over the "top of the hour" news feed. Lots of dead air on weekends with content that should have been switched by a network computer to pick-up feeds. The big money programming is Glenn Beck in the morning (live) and Jimmy Failla (Fox) in the old Rush time slot.

I would approach them to get the station squared away (I have the right FCC licenses), but it would be a HUGE pay cut.