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Note the "listened to AM OR FM radio each week", emphasis on the "or". I can't say how long it has been since I checked the AM dial while driving (basically hi
by toss1 4y ago
Note the "listened to AM OR FM radio each week", emphasis on the "or".
I can't say how long it has been since I checked the AM dial while driving (basically hit it by accident), but years it he most appropriate unit. What I heard (northeastern US) seemed to support some data I read that it is mostly taken over by religious and Limbaugh-type right-wing talk radio. So, that strongly left- Sen. Markey is supporting it so strongly says something. But, if there are actually high listener ship, then for sure, it could be a critical emergency communications channel, and worthwhile just for that
- water8 4y ago[dead]
- RF_Enthusiast 4y agoJust an example: In Seattle, the #2 rated station last month was KIRO-AM 710. Sports play-by-play and local sports talk performs really well on AM [1]. In the same ratings book, the religious and right-wing talk radio on AM continued with a poor performance. I think that generally content is more important than the technology delivering the audio (although probably anything would perform better to at least some extent on FM). [1] <https://radioinsight.com/ratings/seattle-tacoma/ https://radioinsight.com/ratings/seattle-tacoma/>
- splitstud 4y ago
- StanislavPetrov 4y agoHere in NY I regularly tune into AM for news/traffic reports and sports events.
- uni_rule 4y ago1010 still gets the job done ages later, shame they changed all the sounds to more generic ones though.
- Fatnino 4y agoSan Francisco used to have a station with left wing talk show hosts. Then some big corpo (cumulus?) snapped up the station and the cast changed significantly, with the station swinging to the right very noticeably. I switched it off permanently soon after. This was around the time I discovered I get more useful traffic information from my phone anyway.
- darkerside 4y agoMakes me wonder if 60% of people listen to FM radio every week, 30% to AM radio, and they incorrectly aggregated them.