{"id":7235,"date":"2013-09-09T08:21:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T12:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7235"},"modified":"2013-09-09T08:21:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T12:21:40","slug":"ajit-pai-is-trying-to-save-am-radio-before-its-lost-in-the-static","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/ajit-pai-is-trying-to-save-am-radio-before-its-lost-in-the-static\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajit Pai is trying to save AM radio “before it’s lost in the static”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Analog<\/a>Many thanks to\u00a0Andrea Borgnino<\/a>\u00a0for pointing out this article in today’s New York Times<\/a> regarding one man’s quest to save AM radio from impending noise (QRM):<\/p>\n

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The digital age is killing AM radio, an American institution that brought the nation fireside chats, Casey Kasem\u2019s Top 40 and scratchy broadcasts of the World Series. Long surpassed by FM and more recently cast aside by satellite radio and Pandora, AM is now under siege from a new threat: rising interference from smartphones and consumer electronics that reduce many AM stations to little more than static. Its audience has sunk to historical lows.<\/p>\n

But at least one man in Washington is tuning in.<\/p>\n

Ajit Pai, the lone Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, is on a personal if quixotic quest to save AM. After a little more than a year in the job, he is urging the F.C.C. to undertake an overhaul of AM radio, which he calls \u201cthe audible core of our national culture.\u201d He sees AM \u2014 largely the realm of local news, sports, conservative talk and religious broadcasters \u2014 as vital in emergencies and in rural areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cAM radio is localism, it is community,\u201d Mr. Pai, 40, said in an interview.”[…<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Continue reading the full article on the New York Times website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to\u00a0Andrea Borgnino\u00a0for pointing out this article in today’s New York Times regarding one man’s quest to save AM radio from impending noise (QRM): The digital age is killing AM radio, an American institution that brought the nation fireside chats, Casey Kasem\u2019s Top 40 and scratchy broadcasts of the World Series. Long surpassed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,8,3],"tags":[2128,4097,374,371,4089],"class_list":["post-7235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-articles","category-news","tag-ajit-pai","tag-am","tag-medium-wave","tag-ny-times","tag-qrm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1SH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7269,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/the-take-away-interview-with-ajit-pai\/","url_meta":{"origin":7235,"position":0},"title":"The Take Away interviews Ajit Pai","author":"Thomas","date":"September 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Dan Srebnick for sending a link to this piece on The Take Away. 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