Rush Limbaugh Single-Handedly Saved AM Radio
The Michael Berry Show
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🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Michael Berry Show. |
| 0:01.6 | I knew report has raised a lot of concern that automakers are doing away with AM radios |
| 0:11.4 | in automobiles they manufacture. |
| 0:14.8 | Tesla was, I believe, the first to announce saying that the transmission, sorry, the transmission, |
| 0:22.5 | there is no transmission, that the transmission of the radio signal interferes with the |
| 0:29.1 | electronics of the automobile. |
| 0:32.8 | I don't know if that's true, but it has set off in a number of people a trend for automakers |
| 0:44.5 | doing away with AM radio. |
| 0:47.9 | Some folks have, Mark Levin, most notably, have declared that this is an attack on conservatism |
| 0:54.8 | in this country, this is an attack on talk radio influencers. |
| 1:01.3 | I don't know if that's true, it's all together possible. |
| 1:06.1 | That move has been talked about for quite some time. |
| 1:10.1 | When I got in radio in 2005, I'd been doing radio interviews for five years before that. |
| 1:17.6 | So for basically 25 years, there has been talk about the demise of the AM radio. |
| 1:26.9 | I've told the story before, so I've truncated here, but the AM radio was dead in about |
| 1:37.9 | 8990 when one man revived it, and that was Rush Limbaugh. |
| 1:45.9 | For those of you who know the story, you know that AM radio at that time had been pushed |
| 1:56.5 | to the back shelf because of this new amplitude modulation, which is what AM stands for. |
| 2:03.2 | That means of transmission, which had been around since the beginning, was considered outdated. |
| 2:08.7 | We now had frequency modulation. |
| 2:11.0 | That's a tighter, crisper sound. |
| 2:14.4 | And for listening to music, it tends to be much better if you're within the listening |
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