# Can you listen to AM radio anymore?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-listen-to-am-radio-anymore/560712
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 15, 2010, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-listen-to-am-radio-anymore/560712 "2010-11-15T07:29:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-listen-to-am-radio-anymore/560712/61 "2010-11-17T04:48:00Z")
> [@Susanann](#):
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> 1. OK, I checked the station-finder, and it says I can get 1 hour, at midnight. 1 hour of adult broadcasting , only at midnight, is not going to “save” AM radio.
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> 2. We are talking about **AM radio** , and the absence of adult entertainment programming on AM radio (not the internet, not Sirius, not cassette tapes, etc)
I wasn’t trying to suggest that it was, or wasn’t, going to “save AM radio”. I was trying to point out that you, personally, did have options to find places where you could listen to some old-time radio programming, which you, personally, wished you could still hear on the radio.
As noted previously, there are likely very good reasons why no one’s producing or airing new comedy or drama programming on AM radio: the conventional wisdom is that not enough listeners wish to listen to that sort of programming on the radio. It’s been over five decades since TV stole that sort of audience from the radio, and I don’t think anyone realistically expects that radio could get it back.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2010, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-listen-to-am-radio-anymore/560712/62 "2010-11-17T04:54:59Z")
> [@Susanann](#):
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> Have you ever seen some of the nonsensical meaningless superficial boring not-funny television shows being made today?
Not that I disagree with you…but from the POV of the younger people whom you seem to want to get to listen to radio comedies, those shows are probably more relevant and funnier, by far, than a 60-year-old episode of “The Great Gildersleeve” or “Fibber McGee and Molly”.
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### Author:  [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2010, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-listen-to-am-radio-anymore/560712/63 "2010-11-17T05:11:35Z")
> [@Susanann](#):
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> 1. AM stations are not limited to **only** broadcasting 60, 70 year old broadcasts like Tom Corbett Space Cadet. There is no reason why an AM station could not play brand new up to date newly made radio shows. Isnt there anybody in the United States who would like a career as a writer, playwrite, etc? Secondly, many of todays tv and movie stars have already appeared in shows where only their voice was used, e.g. animated movies.
> [@johnpost](#):
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> CBS Radio Mystery Theater ran from 74 to 82 and was quite popular.
> [@Susanann](#):
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> Are you agreeing with me? …or disagreeing?
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> 1974 was 36 years ago!!!
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> More than half the people in this world were not even born 36 years ago.
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> What I was saying, again, is that radio does not need to only broadcast old shows that 60, 70, or even 40 years old. Instead, entirely new shows could be made.
what is though of as OTR (old time radio) was largely before the 50s though some great shows ran to 62.
though the strong showing of CBS Radio Mystery Theater showed audio could still be popular in the age of other media.
there are productions more recently of audio drama. Imagination Theater is currently done for radio.
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### Author:  [@JuliaSqueezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuliaSqueezer)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-listen-to-am-radio-anymore/560712/64 "2010-11-17T13:51:08Z")
Seldom.
Michigan seems to have abdicated AM radio to right-wing talk, sports talk and religious stations. I’m not interested in hearing those topics. At all.
The few stations that carry programming other than those 3 (oldies music, ask the lawyer/mechanic/home improvement guru) are often presented at odd times and are so loaded with ads that they are virtually impossible to enjoy. The ads are annoying, badly produced, and seem to adhere to some formula that requires shouting an 800 number three times.
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