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Spain shutting down 32 AM transmitters

Spain was pretty much the last AM holdout in Western Europe I believe. And yet in the US we are pushing an AM mandate in cars. Yes, the United States is much different than Europe but just because we mandate AM doesn't mean anyone will be flocking to the band for news or whatever if they aren't now.
 
I did a few minutes of SDR listening from a receiver in France. COPE and SER are still around, but for how long, nobody knows. I also heard TalkSport out of the UK.

The band is on life support.
 
JJSPC said:
Spain was pretty much the last AM holdout in Western Europe I believe.
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The BBC still operates numerous Mediumwave transmitters.

Portugal is still operating AM transmitters. I see one on 981 (at the time of this writing, playing "Smooth Operator") and one on 630 with Portuguese talk. The 981 frequency is operated by the Catholic church, but 630 is the national network "Antena 1".

Kind of weird for a Catholic ministry to be programming Sade, so maybe I have this all wrong. :unsure:
 
DAB coverage will be spotty in the more rural, "desplobado" regions of Spain. RNE still needs the big regional transmitters on AM to cover those zones. DAB really performs well in the major cities where FM analog suffers from intermod, multipath, and other typical things.
 
Should note that the actual number of AM transmitters shut down in Spain was around 100.
davideduardo said:
That list is terribly incomplete. Of the 50 or so European MW stations I logged from Ohio in the early 60's, none are on the list.
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Most of those stations are long gone. Looking over the mediumwave list for Europe/Africa/Middle East in the 2026 World Radio TV Handbook, the number of Europeans is pretty thin, and the book was published just before the shutdown of the RTVE outlets.
 


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