Thread regarding Ford layoffs

"Sure you can be mad at Ford and not buy one for many reasons. Buy a Chrysler or GM then."

Why? There is no such thing as "American" car companies anymore, buy whatever you like. If you want a car that lasts a long time, try Toyota, Honda and other car makers that are not greedy and care about providing quality.

"One year from now AM radio will be $20 month subscription. Just watch and wait."

I will remember that when I am buying my Toyota.

I'd drive a Yugo over a Ford.

Feel a little funny driving a hyundai kia? You should feel totally embarrassed.

Sure you can be mad at Ford and not buy one for many reasons. Buy a Chrysler or GM then.

@1mqs You are right. I was looking at cars on Z plan and all said "requires subscription" in the options section. Guess what.... I am not buying a car that I have to pay a monthly fee to use the options that I already paid to have installed. I am only 1 potential customer, but I have to wonder how many people will skip the purchase because of this blatant money grab. All it takes is to see how the public responded to cable TV. First, in the 80's it was billed as no commercials. Then it was picture quality, number of channels, reliability and whatever else. With costs going through the roof, the cable companies are losing hundreds of thousands of customer a year because people are fed up with the bs. I will feel a little funny driving a KIA or Hundai, but hey, thats life.

Who would pay for am on subscription? Do you think our customers are that naive that am is a luxury to pay for now given that it has been a staple in vehicles for decades.

This is a bad decision to back track. There were sound reasons to eliminate legacy am radio from our new products. Now it will just be another give-away without opportunity to gain revenue.

@1nfs

About the time Waco happened is when I found Mark Scott. I also started listening to some shortwave shows which were even more radical, like William Cooper and Mark Koernke. Sure some of what he talked about was way out there but lot of it came true...I sometimes think about what he would say about the current state of affairs.

This was a brilliant model e idea to get customers to pay subscriptions for am radio.

The OTA update wont be what people are expecting. It will be like trying to get reception on the new cheap portable radios with a thin wire as antenna Where an old radio with decent antenna picks up AM radio stations states often a state away
Or it might be streamed AM which has its own reliability issues given the underlying technology.

Since they added back AM capability via an ‘OTA update’… it was all bullsh*t that ‘AM reception needs extra shielding, etc”…..”therefore we are eliminating it”

This was to get them publicity and one year from now AM radio will be $20 month subscription. Just watch and wait.

@2gid…… Mark Scott was great. He’d tell callers “you need an epistemological housecleaning”…. “ you have the IQ of a houseplant” …. “Washington DC is Disneyland on the Potomac”…. “Michigan is handout heaven “…. Mark Scott did go off the edge into the darkness with excessive topics on fitness, vitamins, conspiracy cr-p. Declined quite a bit at the end.

Still, Mark Scott(in his mid-late 1980’s prime),, David Newman… John McCulloch… Tommy McIntyre…. what an amazing lineup that made WJR seem so staid and boring.
Denny McLain, although a crook, was an amazing radio presence on his morning show.

Thank you Ford BoD.

(I'm glad BoD overruled DF! It was his idea)!

OMG Typical Ford. Make a proclamation without doing research, then act like they are being benevolent thought leaders when they must reverse course.

Ford got spanked by commercial customers - required AM for safety reasons; then went crying to legislatures about commercial regulations and got a rude awakening when the legislatures said - Naw we can’t support you on that.

I listened to AM all way l the way into the office today in my Toyota. Our company is id--tic guys. Next, after it is illegal to not include AM radio, or manglement will try to make it a subscription service.

The CPUSA is silencing the Minority God-Loving Latinos there !

My first reaction when I see/hear someone ba----g on about the Communist Party of the US is "And then what happened?"

What is the ratio of FM vs. AM in real $$ + non-tangible influence ? AM RADIO = Freedom Loving Americans, so I'm sure it's demise is intentional to help silence the coming dissent against the current communist takeover of, what has now become, the USSA . . . Also - AM competes with the greedy 'forced subscription plan'. Take-overs and take-downs of conservative Hispanic and Latino radio is a real battle in Florida right now ! The CPUSA is silencing the Minority God-Loving Latinos there !

The Detroit market had some of the best AM radio back in the day. “Excelsior…!”

AM Ratio? Is that like the ratio of average to mean? I'm confused.