[BC] Wow, I wonder if y ou feel the same way about AM?

[Andy Linton]

Capital never had great AM quality, except in the very early days, 
neither did any UK station. 4kHz b/w if you were lucky.

Now, the AMs still sound bad there, on the national networks like 
Absolute there's terrible phase distortion and at night its 
impossible to listen to in a lot of places because the delays are all 
over the place. Like listening to an echo chamber.

Very few UK station simulcast AM/FM now. The AM band is largely 
reduced to poor automated oldies formats - the band is only really 
livened up by talk-formatted TalkSport and BBC Five Live.

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Andy Linton
Kilkenny, Ireland.

From:Broadcast List USER <Broadcast at fetrow.org>

Well, my last time in London was mid to late 80s, so things may have
changed.

Capitol Radio had both a AM and FM.  On Sunday afternoon, the FM did
some other programming.  They had to get permission because they were
required to simulcast at the time.

On Monday morning it was amazing to see how many radios in the shop
were still tuned to Capitol AM.

I don't know when the bandwidth limiting came to be in England, but
maybe it was after I was there.