[illini1]

FM radio has not been deprecated, where did you hear that? And the infrastructure is not disappearing any time soon.

[londons_explore]

Norway shut down FM in 2023. Switzerland will shut it down in 2026. Various other governments are choosing dates - it's clear it's going away soon.

[trinix912]

But Norway and Switzerland are two countries where I'd assume you don't see as many 20 year old cars as you do in the opposite parts of Europe. Many cars since the early 2000s don't have those standardized boxy stereos you could just swap anymore. You can make the point that people can just tune in through their phone but most people won't go through the hassle every time they sit in a (company owned, for example) car. I doubt FM is going away this decade, perhaps even longer, for most of the world. As for Europe, there's also Romania with their longwave AM broadcasts.

[Tor3]

Norway still have local FM radios. It's just the big public and commercial stations which were forced to move to DAB. When that's said, I believe there are fewer and fewer local stations available.

[cj]

Stupid question, but what do you listen to in the car without FM?

Surely playing music doesn’t require that you you connect your phone to your car?