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You must not have an am radio. It's still the same. The programming is different. There are still high power stations that can be heard at great distances at night and there are still local stations that run at very low power at night. There's a high power oldies music station at 740 AM from Toronto that I can pick up here at night.
One thing that changed, In the 50s they broadcast in kilocycles. Sometime in the 60s they all changed to kilohertz.
AM radio and skip still exist. The effect just isn't exciting anymore when the internet connects around the world
It has nothing to do with the Internet. DX isn't exciting any more because of syndication, satellite-fed programming and content homogeny. When you can receive 15 full-power stations across the dial that are all carrying the exact same "Coast to Coast" or "Red Eye" simultaneously, you know DXing is dying.
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Of course, frequencies under 92 MHz were reserved for noncommercial use.
Technically they still are as the law is written, but they're increasingly being dominated by pseudo-noncommercial commercial interests like NPR and the religion industry. Big money guarantees the F¢¢ turns deaf ears to them. But the "noncommercial ghetto" of 88.1- 91.9 MHz does still exist.
In MN my first taste of rhythm and blues came out of KAAY, Little Rock, AK at night. KOMA, OK and WLS, IL (Dick Biondi) were two other late night favorites.
Before my teenaged years I looked forward to my bedtime episode of "Tarzan." You had to say it all run together like this - "Tarzanoftheapes."
Back in the '50's and before, there was no FM. I saw someone said there was no AM in transistors or car radios, they had NO FM. It was straight AM.
My dad used to listen to talk radio at night, WBZ 1040 AM. The night djs always had people calling them up from the Mid-West, Canada. It was a very powerful transmitter. I bet people across "the pond" could hear BZ too. Oh, WBZ was in Boston.
Kids didn't leave the house without their transistors. Most were the size of a modern cellphone except fatter. Mine was red. My favorite station was WMEX. "Fenway" was my fave DJ. Arnie Ginsberg was my 2nd choice. I used to listen to BZ during the day sometimes when they played music. Dave Maynard and "Juicey Brucey". Hmmm, that doesn't sound like a cool name nowadays, does it???
It was fun, it was so innocent, I miss those days.
I used to listen to BZ during the day sometimes when they played music. Dave Maynard and "Juicey Brucey". Hmmm, that doesn't sound like a cool name nowadays, does it???
Hah! A lot of those guys had crazy radio names.
I remember Sandy Shores on WDGY out of the Twin Cities in MN. We called it WeeGee. It was pretty vanilla.
You must not have an am radio. It's still the same. The programming is different. There are still high power stations that can be heard at great distances at night and there are still local stations that run at very low power at night. There's a high power oldies music station at 740 AM from Toronto that I can pick up here at night.
One thing that changed, In the 50s they broadcast in kilocycles. Sometime in the 60s they all changed to kilohertz.
It's the same; just a change in name. 1 cycle per second (cps) is the same as 1 Hz. The name was changed basically to honor the scientist who proved the existence of electromagnetic waves.
Back in the '50's and before, there was no FM. I saw someone said there was no AM in transistors or car radios, they had NO FM. It was straight AM.
My dad used to listen to talk radio at night, WBZ 1040 AM. The night djs always had people calling them up from the Mid-West, Canada. It was a very powerful transmitter. I bet people across "the pond" could hear BZ too. Oh, WBZ was in Boston.
Kids didn't leave the house without their transistors. Most were the size of a modern cellphone except fatter. Mine was red. My favorite station was WMEX. "Fenway" was my fave DJ. Arnie Ginsberg was my 2nd choice. I used to listen to BZ during the day sometimes when they played music. Dave Maynard and "Juicey Brucey". Hmmm, that doesn't sound like a cool name nowadays, does it???
It was fun, it was so innocent, I miss those days.
Don't know if it's the same guy, but there was a DJ I think on WABC in New York, and nationally syndicated, in the '60s called Cousin Brucie and he still has a show on SiriusXM live on Wednesdays and rerun on Sundays.
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