AM band while on a long drive over the past 30 years?! Hundreds of stations — 80% of them Christian broadcast or radical rightwing talking heads. Of course this Congress would try to mandate AM receivers in all vehicles. But bipartisan support?!! What the fuck Democrats????!!! Pounding the nails in our own coffin?!

But even for that, I’ve found Sirius to be a good option … at least for professional sports and some college. I tried a free trial period, liked it especially for sports, but cancelled at the end of the ttisl period. They offered it to me for about 1/4 to 1/3 of the regular subscription and I’ve hsd it for that price for several years since.

I grieve for what AM radio was in the early 80s. But there are still a handful of fantastic all news radio stations in this country, many of them CBS stations (legendary KCBS in San Francisco, KNX in Los Angeles). I do not think we've seen the end of the usefulness of AM radio, and it's not just for people in cars.

The other point I think is important is that many cars receive the NOAA weather radio bands, consisting of 7 channels that give the weather forecast and crucial alerts during inclement weather. I can't overstate how important those stations are to some of us during particular times of the year. So I really don't want to see AM radio scuttled. And if it were to be vanquished, that would provide this toxic administration with one more excuse to nuke NOAA WX radio.