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As to who listens to AM anymore, look at https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-...p-by-state-dma. North Carolina is among the states with low, although not the lowest, AM ratings. On the other hand, besides the states with low population densities like Alaska, New Mexico, and North Dakota, AM is doing surprisingly well in California, Illinois, and New York. I suspect there are long-established patterns of listening to news and traffic broadcasts. In places dominated by skyscrapers such as central and lower Manhattan, the Chicago loop, and downtown LA, FM can be difficult to receive consistently at street level whereas AM does very well except in tunnels. But even Florida and Texas have more AM listeners, relatively speaking, than North Carolina.
As to who listens to AM anymore, look at https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-...p-by-state-dma. North Carolina is among the states with low, although not the lowest, AM ratings. On the other hand, besides the states with low population densities like Alaska, New Mexico, and North Dakota, AM is doing surprisingly well in California, Illinois, and New York. I suspect there are long-established patterns of listening to news and traffic broadcasts. In places dominated by skyscrapers such as central and lower Manhattan, the Chicago loop, and downtown LA, FM can be difficult to receive consistently at street level whereas AM does very well except in tunnels. But even Florida and Texas have more AM listeners, relatively speaking, than North Carolina.
Yeah, in Chicago WGN Radio 720 is something of a standard, though the cubs have moved to 670 The Score. As is WBBM, News Radio 78, which I can't type without singing in my head. And the power of those signals...Especially at night, I could pick up Cubs games all the way in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Today the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation officially passed the "AM For Every Vehicle Act" on to the Senate floor. The bill has bipartisan support.
Meanwhile, broadcasters appear to be convincing the FCC that power of FM HD radio stations can be increased without causing undue interference. I don't know that increasing the effective range of FM HD will save it, however.
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