Re: What has happened to the CRT?


"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MG7hf.23429$q%.2443@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello Joel,
> >
> > Talk Radio completely revitalized it in the '90s. Ironically, while
some
> > solid technical improvements to AM came along in the '80s (primarily AM
> > stereo), we were almost completely back to 'generic' AM by 2000 (I think
> > there's less than a dozen AM stereo stations left in the U.S. today).
....
>
>
> I guess AM stereo never made it because nobody really needed it. To me
> it always looked like 'technology looking for a home'. When you buy a
> new car and there is no AM stereo on it that pretty much tells the
> story. Even the rental cars of brands that used to have AM stereo don't
> have it anymore.
>
>

Such a radio would have to be made for a limited US market - AM stereo does
not exist elsewhere.

McC


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