Video killed the radio star and now the auto industry is trying to kill the AM radio.

Hi, I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green and this episode of Right Angle is brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com.

And gentlemen, I'm not sure that that's fair to say about the auto industry.

But here's the upshot of it.

There's actually a bill in Congress right now that has something like 200

co-sponsors in the House that has brought together people from both parties. I mean, Ted Cruz

and Ed Markey, Republican and Democrat are working together. Representative Mike Johnson,

the Speaker of the House, who used to be a talk radio personality in Louisiana, is teaming

up with Representative Rashida Talibib,

however you say her name. I don't know how to say it. One of the, one of the,

what do they call that the crew, the scrubs. What are they? The squad. The squad. Anyway, so these people

have all come together to back this bill that basically would prevent automakers from dropping the AM radio

as a feature of automobiles. Now, the automakers for their part, by the way, already Tesla, Volvo,

and BMW have created car models that do not have AM radios.

Not all their car models, but some of their models do not have AM tuners.

And basically what the Auto Industry Alliance is saying is that an AM radio, as you probably

know, already has some signal interference problems. Everything interferes with AM radio, as you probably know, already has some signal interference problems.

Everything interferes with AM radio.

But because of all the electronics in modern vehicles, not just electric cars, but just

modern vehicles, it requires additional shielding to create a functional AM tuner.

And that adds expense to the automobile. They've put a

figure on it, but it seems a little strained that it costs an extra $3.8 billion over seven years.

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