How is providing the content the audience wants not operating in the public interest? And you have clearly never driven through highly rural areas with signs telling you to tune into a specific AM station for road and weather conditions.
How is providing the content the audience wants not operating in the public interest? And you have clearly never driven through highly rural areas with signs telling you to tune into a specific AM station for road and weather conditions.
1. I have. And my experience is the range is very short. 2. Ending a mandate does not mean people in those areas won't have radios.
The range covers the needed area - which is a larger area than that covered by FM stations. So what would be the purpose of ending the mandate?