[toss1]

Note the "listened to AM OR FM radio each week", emphasis on the "or".

I can't say how long it has been since I checked the AM dial while driving (basically hit it by accident), but years it he most appropriate unit. What I heard (northeastern US) seemed to support some data I read that it is mostly taken over by religious and Limbaugh-type right-wing talk radio. So, that strongly left- Sen. Markey is supporting it so strongly says something. But, if there are actually high listener ship, then for sure, it could be a critical emergency communications channel, and worthwhile just for that

[darkerside]

Makes me wonder if 60% of people listen to FM radio every week, 30% to AM radio, and they incorrectly aggregated them.

[RF_Enthusiast]

Just an example: In Seattle, the #2 rated station last month was KIRO-AM 710. Sports play-by-play and local sports talk performs really well on AM [1].

In the same ratings book, the religious and right-wing talk radio on AM continued with a poor performance. I think that generally content is more important than the technology delivering the audio (although probably anything would perform better to at least some extent on FM).

[1] <https://radioinsight.com/ratings/seattle-tacoma/>

[StanislavPetrov]

Here in NY I regularly tune into AM for news/traffic reports and sports events.

[uni_rule]

1010 still gets the job done ages later, shame they changed all the sounds to more generic ones though.

[Fatnino]

San Francisco used to have a station with left wing talk show hosts.

Then some big corpo (cumulus?) snapped up the station and the cast changed significantly, with the station swinging to the right very noticeably.

I switched it off permanently soon after. This was around the time I discovered I get more useful traffic information from my phone anyway.