Cameron on Transportation
The Car Radio: Another Familiar Device About to Enter the Museum of Defunct Technology?
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Remember when commuting was fun because you could listen to the radio? Earlier in my career I may have been the guy you heard, both on WHCN / Hartford and later on NBC. When I started in radio in 1967, AM Top 40 was king and FM was just getting started. But in 1961 the FCC decreed that all radios should have both AM and FM bands — and that FM should broadcast in stereo. And no longer could station owners just simulcast their AM programs on their FM stations: FM programming had to be different.