In article ,
David Eduardo wrote:

Many efforts have been made, all across the US, to make AM attract younger
demos via formats designed for 35-44, etc. The only one that has worked
somewhat is sports, but all music attempts have failed miserably. The
reason: AM does not sound as good. Listeners tell us this.

Well, the technical details of the stuff broadcast isn't that much
different. There's not going to be much content in the 9-15 kHz
frequencies in (what an old recording engineer who used to work at
A&M called) "that pop crap". He said that if they had problems cutting
a master disk, they just whacked off the high end until the cutter head
amps were happy, and none of the producers seemed to notice.

So it must be the current set of really crappy AM radios. Or the
processing that the stations (over)do.

Mark Zenier
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