Again, Why is this in the Phily Thread?
The AM radio in my Kia performs so badly it may as well have FM only.
There will always be someone somewhere doing an AM broadcast. Especially in lesser developed areas around the world, AM is still the big guy on the block. It's simple, can cover a whole lot of area with less power and takes up less bandwidth. AM radio is going through a huge change right now. The older generation is still in control of radio; that is why we see so many god squadders on AM and useless sports talk. Once younger people (like myself) start owning Ams, I think we'll see some (hopefully) putting AM radio to a different use. I think we might, *might* see AM radio enter some sort of wild Wild West era, when stations start playing by their own rules, airing more underground music and less conservative talk. It has a chance to become a very niche and counter-cultureesque medium. Maybe we'll be lucky. Probably a pipe dream.
Again, Why is this in the Phily Thread?
Your predictions go against what is trending.
Many countries have eliminated all or all but a few AM stations... with examples ranging from total elimination in Norway to near total in Austria and South Africa.
In our Hemisphere, most of the Lesser Antilles and Jamaica have eliminated AM. In countries like El Salvador and Ecuador, the number of AMs remaining is falling at a rapid pace as FM has grown considerably, reaching smaller and more remote towns that, in the past, had weak AM service.
Mexico just eliminated more than half its AM stations, with only a few remaining... principally community and government stations serving indigenous communities and AMs in areas where the FM band could not accommodate those licensees as it was already full (Mexico CIty, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla and the US border areas).
Nobody, young or old, wants a station with low fidelity that is subject to increasing man-made noise and where AM radios are decreasing in number and of very low quality, all of which requires a large piece of real estate and high transmitter site costs.
David, what have the countries that have phased out AM radio done with that banned band? Reserved the width for cell phones, police/first responder radio, etc.?
ixnay
David, what have the countries that have phased out AM radio done with that banned band? Reserved the width for cell phones, police/first responder radio, etc.?
ixnay
Write legislation that requires AM to be put in cars forever stuff like that.
My bad I meant Proclamation Tweat.
Executive order.
Even if he could, mandating AM in cars forever wouldn't make people listen.
Please don't turn this into another Trump bashing platform, there are more than enough around this country.
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State broadcasters in France and England have eliminated nearly all AMs and those that remain will apparently be closed when the equipment is no longer serviceable.