Is it still worth maintaining AM?
RUXANDRA OBREJA
The author is chairman of Digital Radio Mondiale.
Is medium wave in decline? Some people think so.
In the 1950s radio was declared mortally wounded by TV. But then FM with its new music rescued it, becoming one of the most successful technologies and platforms ever. Radio survived and thrived but AM should have died at the hands of the nimbler, younger and more attractive FM.
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