I enjoy listening to talk radio. Where I live there are two stations that I enjoy listening to: NPR (abet very liberal) but they carry “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” and (Drum Roll Please…) “Car Talk – The Best of Car Talk” and they are on the FM Dial… and if I want to listen to this station, I have to turn the volume way up, way up…
I also listen to a local AM station and they are very much on the conservative side, but they also offer none political programming, like: “Ask the Experts”, “The Kim Komando Show”, and “Somewhere in Time.” This AM station’s volume is atrociously high and if I do not lower the volume before I switch from FM to AM, I get BLASTED out of the car…
I am a political person and I have definite views but all too often those bobble head political podcasters are just parrot stories without thinking and it make my “ears hurt…” and there is toooooo much fake news, from both sides of the aisle… Then I usually just turn off the radio and listen to the rush of the air when the stations are in full “Political Influence” mode…
The AM is more susceptible to interference from power lines and there is one section of a nearby road with a substation adjacent to it and the radio turns into a static generator for a couple of hundred feet around it…
I have Sirius XM radios in two of my vehicles but after the initial Free 3-month trial periods and wasting many hours trying to find stations, I will not waste my money on their subscription. Perhaps, if I drone more or on long trips, it would be practical, but to just buzz around town, I found myself pulling into my destination and still punching in stations trying to find something I wanted to listen to…
If AM radio goes away, I will miss it…