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Is AM radio a US-only thing? Because I've never heard anything broadcast on AM here is Sweden.
by LinAGKar 4y ago
Is AM radio a US-only thing? Because I've never heard anything broadcast on AM here is Sweden.
- 112233 4y agoShortwave on plain consumer radios is AM. A lot of stations there, a lot of them from China.
- kypro 4y agoWe have it in the UK. The BBC still broadcast on it (at least they did last time I tuned in). I believe there are some sports stations who use it too. My dad would listen to cricket on it in the car all the time when I was a kid.
- xxr 4y agoNot US-only, but it appears that Sweden is indeed one of the countries that no longer supports it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_wave#Use_in_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_wave#Use_in_Europe
- Centrino 4y agoAM radio (called "medium wave radio" in Europe) is still used in Eastern Europe, the UK, Spain etc. The last AM broadcasts in Sweden stopped in 2010, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6lvesborg_medium_wave_transmitter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6lvesborg_medium_wave_tr... For a full list of AM radio stations in ITU region 1, see https://www.mwlist.org/mwlist_quick_and_easy.php https://www.mwlist.org/mwlist_quick_and_easy.php