Do you remember the emergency alert sent out in early October? Odds are, you — like more than 90% of Americans who got the alert — saw it on your phone. If you happened to be watching live TV that afternoon, you might have seen it interrupt your show.One place you probably didn’t hear it? AM radio. According to a recent Consumer Technology Association survey, the alert — sent by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) — reached just 1% of Americans through AM radio broadcast.AM radio achieved its full potential long ago. In the decades since, it’s been surpassed by FM radio, satellite radio and a range of other options both for emergency alerts and for entertainment. Despite that reality, the broadcasters lobby continues to insist that access to AM radio is a necessity. In fact,…
