| yeah, Europe's AM bands were fun at night I can still get music radio from Algeria on AM, or rock, sport and news from the UK (I believe from stations emitting from Swansea and London)
I used to listen to Deutschlandfunk, France Inter, BBC4 LW on the LW band (only the latter is still active today, others were switched off in the 2010s) Also, I love that radio is a media that is so hard to regulate. There is always some novelty to what you can listen.
There used to be rock-music pirate radios in the 60s, emitting from the international waters. Some small countries like Luxembourg and Monaco would also have commercial radios to break government monopolies from neighboring countries.
Then there were the pirate FM radios in the 70s and 80s Monaco is still broadcasting some stations that don't comply with French regulations on music (Riviera radio serves mainstream English pop songs).
It allows you to listen to some different music in your car.
(this one is in FM, tho, so it's very local) Some authoritarian governments were challenged by the radio too. Nazi Germany couldn't stop the BBC during WWII, for example.
And you can get a lot of American radios all over the world, even when the internet is controlled.
At last, none of the radio you listen to on AM end up in the history that profiles you. You can listen to a radio a night without being served the same music over and over afterwards. AM radio won't be mainstream. But I'm convinced it still has a role for media plurality, and as a line of Defense for the democracy
(and yeah, I know you can get much more from internet radios, like Anime music and everything, but it doesn't feel the same) |