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Wonder if AM is covered everywhere throughout the country . Here in India radio in trucks was there for a very short period of time till side loaded cassettes I, CDnd side loaded MP3 took over. I think we never had great "talk" content.Even in 2017 I tune to BBC1 , world service and VOA in my car via internet but I get mocked a lot. Guess no one else does it. People here are used to side loaded MP3 music and not so intellectual Bollywood FM radio.

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There are some "clear channel" (now "Class A") AM stations that have huge listening areas particularly at night. These are distinct from Clear Channel the company. These stations mostly broadcast at 50kw in the USA and have a bunch of added protections such as distant AM stations on the same frequency having to reduce their broadcast power at night.

More info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear-channel_station

There's really not much about it in the article, but my impression growing up in Chicago (which has at least 5, currently 2 sports, 2 talk and 1 news) was that part of their role was also to be emergency information destinations.

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