Does anyone listen to AM radio anymore?

[lost in space]

AM radio? Is that like those black things you spin around on a machine and you put a needle on it to hear music?

[steve...]

wave rider wrote:
Sports.

Did listen to KGO at night, number of progressive shows. A few years ago, the owners (clear channel or cummulous) fired everybody except a morning guy who had an iron clad contract. So much for that...

KGO (San Francisco) used to be a GREAT station but not any more. In the evening, I think their signal could be heard in much of the western US.

There's a local AM station here that has some progressive shows that I like. I usually have it on several hours a day. I only listen to news and talk radio, never music.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

DinerDave wrote:
My 91 year old mother in law found a local AM station that plays Big Band music from the 40's and 50's, that hoppin AM radio is right up her alley!

I'd listen to that. In fact, I have two of my XM Radio pre-programmed slots dedicated to music of that era.

[mrlynn]

Talk, news, weather, traffic.

Yes.

/Mr Lynn

[CJsNvrUrly]

That tells me all I need to know. Thanks!

[tenders]

Bloomberg AM radio in NYC and Long Island is excellent, actually, for business news.

I really dislike the other NYC AM "news" channels (1010 WINS and their ilk). People tune in for weather and traffic (I guess because they don't have phones? Radio traffic is inferior to traffic from any other source). All they talk about in between is disaster news - murders, fires, robberies. Ain't nobody got time for that.

[Winston]

Very occasionally. I used to regularly tune in Clear Channel stations from across the country when driving at night. These are higher-powered stations that can be heard in much of the country at night, on frequencies that the FCC keeps clear by requiring that local stations turn down their transmitters at night.
Explanation of Clear Channel stations

[mrlynn]

Winston wrote:
Very occasionally. I used to regularly tune in Clear Channel stations from across the country when driving at night. These are higher-powered stations that can be heard in much of the country at night, on frequencies that the FCC keeps clear by requiring that local stations turn down their transmitters at night.
Explanation of Clear Channel stations

Boston's WBZ was a clear-channel station; it always impressed me that I could pick it up when in Maryland.

And of course, we country fans driving at night used to love WWVA out of Wheeling, WV, anywhere in the country, "With your coffee-drinking nighthawk, Lee Moore." And WCKY out of Cincinnati, with Wayne Rainey. I knew some folks way up north on James Bay, Canada, who could get WWVA. Used to be said that AM radio bounced off the ionosphere.

/Mr Lynn

[Speedy]

KAAY. Alternative rock out of Little Rock while attending Mankatoe State in Mankato, MN. All night long while waiting for the sun to rise so I could hit the hay.

[fauch]

News and Talk Radio.....