In early December 2022, Ed Markey, the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, asked no less than 20 car manufacturers to ensure that access to kHz-band radio broadcasts remains omnipresent across all of their vehicles — including electric vehicles.
Responses were released on Wednesday by the legislator. To say he was less than thrilled with their communication is perhaps an understatement.
The InFOCUS Podcast: Craig Fugate
AM radio “is the foundation of the national emergency response system,” Craig Fugate, the FEMA director during the Obama Administration, reminds us in an InFOCUS Podcast distributed last week by RBR+TVBR. “You don’t have to get a lot of stations to serve as a primary entry point when you use AM radio,” Fugate says.