In response to public and political pressure, the Ford Motor Company has announced that it will keep installing AM radio in new vehicles after all.

Previously, the manufacturer had been on record as saying there was no compelling need to maintain the AM band in any of its forthcoming models — a stance that other carmakers had taken with electric cars but not extended as a policy to all vehicles. That had made Ford particularly a target amid growing controversy over the increasing move to eliminate AM and new congressional legislation designed to make it mandatory in all new models.

Jim Farley, Ford’s CEO, announced the