if
people are choosing AM radios based only on price, then they are likely
getting poor radios. If most people don't notice the difference between a
good radio an

I don't thimk that's the problem. Even the expensive AM/FM radios made today
sem to not be able to pick up AM anywhere near as well as the old ones. I
would call all of the modern AM radios I have seen very very very poor at
picking up radio signals in the AM broadcast band, although good at picking up
signals in the FM broadcast band.

I have come to the conclusion (my opinion) that the real reason today's AM
radios are so poor as compred to the old ones of the 70's and earlier is that
today's manufacturerrs think that AM isn't popular, so why bother making it
pick up AM good? FM is the popular band.

Well, they're right that FM is the popular band, and that AM isn't popular
anymore like it was in the early 70's and before.

But to me, that still isn't any excuse to make cheap radios.

In my opinion, IF a radio is sold as covering the AM band, then it SHOULD be
able to pick up the AM band good.

But unfortunately, that's not the case.

In my opinion, if you want good AM reception, you're probably better off going
with an old radio manufactured in the early 1970's or before.

Somewhere in the 1970's (1975?), FM first gained popularity over AM