By EDWARD WYATT
WASHINGTON — Is anyone out there still listening?
Ajit Pai, the Republican on the F.C.C., called AM radio "the audible
core of our national culture."
The digital age is killing AM radio, an American institution that
brought the nation fireside chats, Casey Kasem's 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.
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