Fox News and syndicated talk host Sean Hannity is sounding the alarm about the growing trend in the auto industry to remove AM radio from new electric vehicles (EVs).
Several prominent car manufacturers, including Ford, Volkswagen, BMW, Mazda, Volvo and Tesla, are tuning out AM radio from their latest EV models due to alleged interference between electromagnetic frequencies from their motors and AM radio frequencies, which create a buzzing noise and a weak signal.
Hannity isn't buying that excuse, telling Fox News Digital, "It's incomprehensible to me."
"It's not complicated to put in a radio system that allows you to have AM FM, Sirius XM, or the ability to plug in your own music from your own phone," Hannity told Fox News Digital in an interview. "And I think people want more options, not less options. And this would be a direct hit politically on conservative talk radio in particular, which is what most people go to AM radio to listen to."
"So is there a political component to it? Certainly feels like it," he added.
Hannity, whose program "The Sean Hannity Show" is broadcasted on over 700 AM and FM radio stations across the country, defended AM radio stations, saying "it's not fair" for them to be eliminated as an option in vehicles.
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