With an AM radio you can hear the crackle of a lightening storm coming. Try that on anything else.
The demise of AM radio
- Thread starter John Galt
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They will sell the rights to anybody who comes up with enough dollars. It is zero indication of who or how many is listening .
Yes lots of AM stations here locally in the Greater Seattle area. But the Car manufacturers seem to be switching over to Sirus pay for radio with a very likely kickback! I'll just sick with 770 AM KTTH
I use podcasts for talk radio these days to the point that I never looked to use the AM radio tuner. I think my VW has one, the Tesla I'm not sure but guessing it doesn't based on this thread. I used to listen to AM radio all the time about 8 years ago. I was working in cars back then and when I'd get tired of music I'd go to talk radio.
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You can haggle Sirius to $3 for 3 months, then try it over and over until they give up. I got a year of service this way then finally caved and paid $60 for an entire year.
The only downside with Sirius is if you decide you no longer want to pay for it and actually ending service. They make the process so frustratingly long and try at every turn to talk you out of it with continuous offers for cheap rates. Some of my favorite shows were cancelled on there so I don't bother getting it again, but it sucks that they act so crooked if you just want to cancel service. Overall using it though was great.
Well it was free on my first year on the Duramax and then they went to $15 a month. They got my credit card number and then it went up. So it took me a month to cancel. I called and tried to cancel and they hung up on me. Finally I just went to the bank and got my Credit card changed and shut them off. Never again its been over 20 years now since I got out of that trap!
Since we get non of that here in Germany, I downloaded a ton of old Coast to Coast shows.
Love to listen to them during long night trips on the autobahn.
Frank
Love to listen to them during long night trips on the autobahn.
Frank
Am works much farther at night.
And SAT radio works just about any where.
Works on CB and shortwave, too.
Without Coast to Coast on AM radio, I never would have known about chemtrails, recording the voices of the dead, burning your fingernail trimmings to prevent other from putting a hex on me, specific examples of alien abduction, etc. I used to get up very early to walk for exercise and that program kept me entertained every morning! So I like to have AM radio available for information (KYW out of Philly) and sports.
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So true. I have told Sirius that I have traded in the car and that usually works. They always try to switch it over to the next car and pass you along in the call network. Last time i needed to unhook myself from Sirius I told them the owner of the account had died from Covid (me) and I was his brother wrapping up the estate. That worked!
Sad it takes so much! I can't think of a single service that was so hard to get shut off as Sirius.
Easy to get off Sirius. Just tell your credit company not to accept any more charges from them. When we did that, the guy at the credit card number laughed and told me he did that for folks about ten times a day. Worked like a charm!
Jim Eason used to be if the afternoon slot maybe 12:30 to 3 or 3 to 6 Jim Eason wiki bio
They couldn’t quite wrap their minds around me getting rid of a car with siriusXM for a truck that doesn’t lol… they asked me no less than a dozen times if I’m absolutely sure it didn’t have satellite radio. I think they finally got it when I said it has a “90’s era radio, you know the monochromatic LCD screen with 2 lines of text?”
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The audio of satellite radio sounds absolutely terrible IMO. If it was “free” that’s one thing, but it’s just above AM radio in terms of audio quality and it’s a monthly/ yearly subscription.