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 Posted By: Bob Mathers on: 03/09/2007 12:35:49 ESTSubject: RE: FM Radio |
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FM radio overtook AM radio in music listenership in 1978. By the end of 1979, a few AM stations were broadcasting in stereo. However, the FCC had to choose between two AM stereo systems (Kahn & Motorola) and come up with an industry wide standard. They didn't do this until the mid 90's. By then, AM stereo was irrelevant. Technology, corporation positioning of AM stations, and a change in listener habits rendered it virtually obsolete. When I was at WITH in 1994, owner Mark McNeil added AM stereo. When the station went to an oldies format in May 1996, we were still broadcasting in AM stereo. I have airchecks of my shows in AM stereo and the sound was great. However, unless you drove a Chrysler that had a C-Quam AM stereo system in the car radio, you really couldn't hear it. We simply sounded like a brighter mono AM. Good ole AM stereo. If the FCC had acted faster, the AM contemporary music station of the 80's...'coulda been a contender! |
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