That's just the "nature" of FM. It's "line of site" which is why it drops out when you go under a bridge or past a big building etc. Anything that "gets in the way" between the receiver and the station's
Dear Kevin Thanks for your enquiry. You have contacted Media Man. I think that many people in the news media business in general take themselves too seriously. There's a vast array of media
Not sure if this is it, but comedian Bob Burns played such an instrument, called a Bazooka. This was prior to World War II, when the word became more commonly associated with a shoulder mounted gun

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