• 866-RON-0-FEZ 3 hours ago |
    With everyone hating on AM radio (HN included) and thinking the EV automakers were right for eliminating it from cars, this was the inevitable result.
    • nh23423fefe 3 hours ago |
      why is the medium relevant at all? what does radio do that a podcast cant
      • ramesh31 3 hours ago |
        >why is the medium relevant at all? what does radio do that a podcast cant

        Deliver the news to you anywhere and everywhere with a receiver that can be built from scavenged garbage. Terrestrial absolutely still has a place, and will most likely outlive the internet.

        • jimt1234 an hour ago |
          Also, radio broadcasts a signal and is completely agnostic to who picks up the signal and listens. IOW, you can listen to radio without anyone/anything tracking what you. Not being tracked and data-collected for everything is still important to some of us.
      • iAMkenough 3 hours ago |
        what does a movie theater screen do that a phone screen can’t?
        • nekzn 2 hours ago |
          That’s right, nothing. “Movie theater attendance is well below pre-pandemic levels, with global cinema admissions hovering at roughly 64% of their historical peaks”
          • iAMkenough 2 hours ago |
            Yes, lower sales performance means we should eliminate all movie theaters so our children never have the opportunity to experience them. Profits are the only factor.

            You’re right that experiencing a movie individually on a phone screen is the ideal medium.

            • nekzn 2 hours ago |
              I didn’t say any of those three things.
              • iAMkenough 2 hours ago |
                And I didn’t say “nothing.”
      • twism 3 hours ago |
        Internet.connection (∴ tracking) not required
      • tonypapousek 2 hours ago |
        Emergency broadcast is a big one, as well as location-specific information like road conditions.
      • sergiomattei 2 hours ago |
        AM is critical for emergency scenarios. When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, all our infrastructure was completely devastated.

        The only way to receive news or bulletins for weeks was just one remaining AM radio station that kept broadcasting even as the storm hit and their building began to flood.

      • ajs1998 2 hours ago |
        It's not just the medium. Streaming from the internet is a totally different product than radio. There's no reason we can't have both.
      • alnwlsn 2 hours ago |
        Work without internet infrastructure
      • ux266478 2 hours ago |
        They live in different layers of "medium". This is like asking "What does piping do that juice doesn't?", they're not mutually exclusive.
      • kube-system 2 hours ago |
        A podcast requires thousands of pieces of fragile infrastructure between the sender and receiver.

        Radio can send signals between continents with zero infrastructure between the sender and receiver.

        • xnyan 21 minutes ago |
          You're making an apples to oranges comparison. If you can send a signal via a radio between continents, one can send a podcast using that signal with zero infrastructure between the sender and the receiver.
      • Craighead 2 hours ago |
        It's literally absurdity that you even wrote this at all.
      • kgwxd 2 hours ago |
        Count how many subscriptions are between you and that podcast.
      • mrandish 2 hours ago |
        Radio has an almost orthogonally inverse set of failure modes than internet streaming.
      • NDlurker an hour ago |
        AM signals have a far reach and are often used for road and emergency updates.
    • teruakohatu an hour ago |
      I googled your interesting HN username and best as I could tell it refers to what was a satellite radio show.

      Satellite radio probably contributed to the demise of AM radio in countries where its available. It offers the benefits of AM (range) without the major downside (quality) with both being infrastructure heavy.