Lee Perryman
speaker
158 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
Lee Perryman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
And they're putting their own things in cars where you have to pay to be able to listen to something as you're driving down the road.
And that's a problem for us because...
Radio stations historically have been the backbone of the official emergency notification systems for America.
Radio is always on when there's a tornado or a hurricane or a power outage.
The Internet is out.
Cell phones don't work.
All these things break when you're talking about many one-to-one connections, and radio is the original one-to-many.
You put up several towers and you hit—
Thousands or tens of thousands of people with one tower or one signal.
But all radio stations in America participate in an emergency notification network that is required by the government, meaning that emergency officials can send alerts and alarms with no human beings involved at the stations in the middle of the night to turn them on.
Most of our stations have emergency power generators and backup systems so that in emergencies we're still on.
And the last remaining notification network being AM and FM radio is important, even if you decide to subscribe to something.
But the auto manufacturers want subscription models, so they're no longer putting, increasingly so, radios and vehicles online.
which is horrible because it means that if there is an emergency and every other method of communication in the new modern world goes away, you can't tell people where there's shelter, where things are coming at you and you've got to get out of the way.
And usually in those emergencies, people will head out to their cars and turn on the radios and figure out what's going on.
Yeah.
We've been trying to encourage the House and the Senate and Congress and the government to make sure that it's not a mandate to put something in cars, but it's a mandate as part of public service and emergency alert systems to not take radio out of cars.
And we have the majority of the support from the House and the Senate, but we just haven't been able to get it introduced so they can vote on it.
It doesn't make sense.
And the reason that AM is so important, even though the preponderance of listening is not on AM these days, it's still true that 97% of the American public listens to radio every week.
Showing 21–40 of 158 · page 2 of 8
← Previous
Next →