"AM-HDisDead" wrote in message
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The Reagan FCC did not do much of anything to AM. What did AM in was
FM...
anyone under 45 has grown up in the era where more listening went to FM
than
AM (currently 80% or more) and they are not used to AM, especially for
music. That is why nearly nobody under 45 uses AM... it sounds bad, is
noisy
and unpleasant compared to FM, iPods, webcasts, CDs, etc.

There are a number of years, still left on AM - news/talk/sports is
ranked #1 on AM.


And owners of news and talk AMs are moving the format to FM, or starting new
FMs formats to challenge stodgy old AMs like KDKA and WWL and WDBO.

The whole format will eventually move to FM, where the money is.