Is The FM tuner obsolete?

My reference point for this is the stats for over the air tv. Currently over 60% of households still receive their tv from an antenna of some kind. So no fm tuners are not going away. Also don’t forget the car market too. Yes they might become harder to find but they will always be around. Now for the political comment do you want all of the media we receive and our contact to the outside world to be cut off with the flip of a switch! Think about that with your electric car. They have another shut down and don’t want you to go anywhere they cut the grid and there you sit. Don’t think it can happen look at Australia right now.

Parasound TDQ1600 Tuner
listening to this Rock Station WEBN 102.7
with local adds, beats listening to station on iHeart. Frog Nation WEBN Cincinnati.

WEBN got bought out in the same way that WMMS did in Cleveland. WEBN was a fairly good station in the 1970’s but it never rose to near the level that WMMS did. Both stations are so compressed anymore, I don’t know how anyone can listen to either. There was a pretty good station out of Northern Kentucky University called WNKU but they couldn’t operate within budget and it was dissolved by the University. So, besides the banal, middle of the road classical station WGUC, we have WAIF, a diverse community station with a very weak signal.

I use my tuners every day.   I have a Magnum MD102 and a Fanfare FT1a which is in rotation right now.   Plenty of FM where I am,  just outside Boston.    I get Rock 101 in Manchester NH , 94 HJY in Providence ,  and everything from Boston to Worcester.. .   Plenty of stations 

The FM tuner in my Marantz NR1200 was one of the key reasons I purchased it, but recently I picked up a used Marantz PM8004. Sounded better than the NR1200, but I missed listening to FM, so I found a used Marantz ST6000.  I suppose I could have run the NR1200 as a pre-amp into the PM8004 to still have the FM and streaming, but it just seemed simpler to pick up a used ST6000.