"It's the programming, stupid!"

[Bill]

You could put an AM radio in an ipod easily enough. Getting it to work
halfway decently is the hard part. Shielding all the processors and creating
a decent antenna will be difficult.

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org
[mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
Garrett Wollman
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 12:30 AM
To: A Joseph Ross
Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
Subject: Re: "It's the programming, stupid!"

<<On Sat, 19 May 2012 00:13:37 -0400, A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com>
said:

> Back in the early 1960s Congress and the FCC required that all TV sets 
> had to be able to tune all channels.  Maybe something similar should 
> be done for AM radio.

That's a physical impossibility for a device the size of an iPod.

-GAWollman