A controversial bill that would require all new cars to be fitted with AM radios looks set to become a law in the near future.
@#43 ... I'm not sure they had to go off they air but they did drastically drop their RF output at sundown. ...
Yeah, I was thinking of the local station back in the day when I wrote that.
But, yeah, many local stations had to reduce their power at sundown to reduce (eliminate) the interference with the clear channel stations.
Clear-channel station
en.wikipedia.org
... A clear-channel station is a North American AM radio station that has the highest level of protection from interference from other stations, particularly from nighttime skywave signals.
This classification exists to ensure the viability of cross-country or cross-continent radio service enforced through a series of treaties and statutory laws. Known as Class A stations since the 1983 adoption of the Regional Agreement for the Medium Frequency Broadcasting Service in Region 2 (Rio Agreement), they are occasionally still referred to by their former classifications of Class I-A (the highest classification), Class I-B (the next highest class), or Class I-N (for stations in Alaska too far away to cause interference to the primary clear-channel stations in the lower 48 states).
The term "clear-channel" is used most often in the context of North America and the Caribbean, where the concept originated.
Since 1941, these stations have been required to maintain a transmitter power output of at least 10,000 watts to retain their status. Nearly all such stations in the United States, Canada and The Bahamas broadcast with 50,000 watts, with several clear-channel stations in Mexico going as high as 150,000 watts, and XEW in Mexico City having formerly operated with 250,000 watts for over 80 years before moving the transmitter and reducing to 100,000 watts in 2016.
Cuba was originally included in the plan and had several stations given clear-channel status, but stopped participating after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. ...
@#45 ... WLS in Chicago. ...
WLS stands for "World's Largest Store" a reflection of its origin as a broadcast outlet of Sears, Roebuck and Company back in the day.
en.wikipedia.org(AM)
... Founded in 1924 by Sears, Roebuck and Company -- with the call sign an abbreviation for Sears' "World's Largest Store" slogan -- WLS spent its early years as the radio outlet of the Prairie Farmer magazine. ...
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