AM signals reach far and at night cover huge areas, though some stations have to power down or change direction to protect others.
There is news-talk on FM including powerful NPR stations like WBUR and WGBH in Boston. Some conservative talk stations are FM only while some simulcast an AM talker.
Some stations will simulcast on FM with a full powered signal while some have FM translators with limited range.
Some simulcast on HD2 or HD3 signals for those with special HD radio.
Other options:
—streaming—iHeartRadio, TuneIn etc
—some news-talk content on satellite radio (for fee)
The AM dial has strong and weak stations
with talk, news, religion, foreign language and sports. You could have a big sports station on FM while an AM would have sports gambling talk. Some nostalgia/oldies.
In Boston area there’s easy listening WJIB AM 740, a one man operation with a cult following. Listener supported with donations. He refuses to streamcast for cost reasons but covers some areas with an FM translator (101.3)
In Boston iHeart has conservative talk
on WRKO 680 (regional shows like Howie
Carr), WXKS 1200 (nation shows like
Travis and Sexton, Beck, Hannity)
and news station WBZ 1030 has a night show
with Dan Rea.
All of them streamcast.
None have an FM simulcast but if you
have an HD radio WZLX 100.7 has WRKO
on the HD2 and WXKS AM on the HD3.
WBZ AM is on the HD2 of WXKS FM 107.9
>In Boston area there’s easy listening WJIB AM 740, a one man operation with a cult following. Listener supported with donations. He refuses to streamcast for cost reasons but covers some areas with an FM translator (101.3)
That sounds like a cool station. Around 20 years ago, Reno had a small AM station that broadcast Alex Jones. That’s back when NV was red. The station was bought and now it’s a spanish language station. Now we have a Faux talk station on FM out of Carson City and the standard AM blather from the Reno station.