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Scalzi May 15, 2023

I honestly can't remember when I listened to an AM station, and also if I wanted to listen to an AM station these days I would listen to it via an app that streams AM stations, not the actual radio itself

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/13/am-radio-electric-cars/

End of a love affair: AM radio is being removed from many cars

After a century-long romance, the car and AM radio are breaking up, leaving conservative talk shows, programs aimed at immigrants and religious stations wondering how they'll connect with listeners.

The Washington Post

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Texty the Bard

@scalzi In the mid-'80s, one of my first jobs was weekend shifts at a 50k-watt AM country station in Northern Nevada. We actually broadcast from the transmitter building. The signal was so powerful it was one of the few stations that could be picked up in some places along the routes East and North. We even got picked up in Japan once (though that may be an apocryphal story.)