The lone Republican member of the FCC, Ajit Pai, is on a quest to save AM radio, whose gradual disappearance over many years has now been hastened by "rising interference from smartphones and consumer
electronics that reduce many AM stations to little more than static," writes Edward Wyatt. "After a little more than a year in the job, [Pai] is urging the FCC to undertake an overhaul of AM radio,
which he calls 'the audible core of our national culture.'”
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