What's Really Happening to AM Radio Infrastructure

The fight over AM radio isn’t really about whether you listen to it. It’s about what happens when the land under a tower is worth more than the station on it. Licenses keep declining, copper theft keeps getting worse, and the push to pull AM from new cars is only part of the story. I get into the infrastructure side: why towers are worth more as real estate than as signals, why the federal government and emergency managers still call AM vital, and why the bills to protect it are sitting in Congress waiting for a vote. When the internet goes down, AM is still on. That’s not nostalgia, that’s the design. AM isn’t dead yet, but if nobody pays attention to the infrastructure, the decision gets made by default, one parking lot at a time. All opinions and views expressed in this episode are my own and do not represent my employer or any affiliated organizations.