The website for New York radio station W I R Y-AM, screams: [quote] "Hometown radio. Playing all the hits from yesteryear to today." Now after 75 years, however, there will be no hits played for any tomorrows. The upstate New York State broadcaster has announced it is going silent, the result of a changing audience and a changing media environment.
Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are presently debating whether a law is needed to ensure that carmakers keep AM radio in vehicles sold in the US -- but for this broadcaster, a locally owned station in the Champlain Valley, the argument is over and AM radio has lost. WIRY made its announcement earlier this month. The announcement did not specify the last day before its transmitter would go silent.
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