Which AM stations do you still listen to on a regular (or every day) basis?

[Theater of My Mind]

It's truly amazing to listen to the AM band in Atlantic Canada. Other than WBZ, there's almost nothing on in middays. Within a few hours of sunrise and sunset, several Boston AMs are heard and maybe WDEA or WGAN Portland. Maybe a NYC station. I remember WBBR 1130 came in sometimes but again, not in middays.

The best AM radio reception I ever heard in my life was driving over the Confederation Bridge between New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island at night. It's 8 miles long over the saltwater of the Northumberland Strait.

I believe there are still two AM stations in the Maritimes, one in Nova Scotia and one in New Brunswick. But when I was there listening in my car they didn't stop my radio when I hit the scan button.

In New Brunswick, there's CKHJ on 1260 in Fredericton with a terrible, directional signal, which mainly exists to feed two FM rebroadcasters that would be called translators in the U.S. And does CFBC still exist at AM 930 in Saint John? Last I heard it had downgraded from its former 50kw signal to 2kw day, 150 watts night with a Country music format.

In Nova Scotia, I think CKAD Middleton remains as the last AM station on the Annapolis Valley Network, at 1 kw. And CBC Radio 1 is on both AM & FM in Sydney with the 1140 signal retained to reach outlying areas that the FM doesn't cover.

But your point is still valid. There are almost no AM stations left broadcasting in Atlantic Canada, and lots of saltwater around, which makes it a very interesting place for AM DXers.

 

[Joey1986]

Another case for an example is Los Angeles, where there are no full-time sports stations on FM. My guess is that every one of the major players have FM stations doing well with music (except for KNX-FM). As a consequence, KLAC (570) has a respectable following, followed by poor second place, KSPN (710) and third place KLAA (830)

NFL Football is the only sport carried on FM and it's just the regular season. In fact, the Superbowl was carried on KLAC, but not on KLAC online.

I mentioned earlier, that I listen to KNX 1070, but I need to mention that KFI (640) still has a sizable audience (just not me). Once in a while, I tune in to KMZT 1260, but with KUSC I really don't need to.

Fixed.

 

[yeoldeschool]

First off, how do you set one up privately like that?

This is something best asked about in its own thread. But in brief, investigate and read about Icecast. You can alternatively use Shoutcast 1.9.8 instead (still working download source). The latter is older (Icecast is actually based on it), but it still runs under modern Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems and generates standard ICY streams that any browser or media player will be compatible with.

If you choose to install and play with Shoutcast, you can get a separate plugin for good old Winamp that lets you stream Winamp's own audio output directly to your Shoutcast installation. That provides you with a nice and simple way to feed something to your Shoutcast installation while you're in the learning/experimentation phase with it.

In the old days, I used to run Shoutcast on my home PC, and by simply creating a port forwarding rule in my router for Shoutcast's streaming TCP port on that PC, friends could connect to my stream from anywhere in the world and listen to whatever I was listening to.

 

[LamptimerFan]

This is something best asked about in its own thread. But in brief, investigate and read about Icecast. You can alternatively use Shoutcast 1.9.8 instead (still working download source). The latter is older (Icecast is actually based on it), but it still runs under modern Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems and generates standard ICY streams that any browser or media player will be compatible with.

If you choose to install and play with Shoutcast, you can get a separate plugin for good old Winamp that lets you stream Winamp's own audio output directly to your Shoutcast installation. That provides you with a nice and simple way to feed something to your Shoutcast installation while you're in the learning/experimentation phase with it.

This is awesome! Thank you so much