Week of 4/27: Live!

[Kryptonite]

Howard Stern is live this week on SiriusXM Howard 100 and the SiriusXM app.

On today's show, we heard about "Voice of the NFL" Alan Roach at the NFL Draft, Sal quit vaping, the rumors that iHeart might merge with SiriusXM and Howard's thoughts on the death of Dave Mason. Some songs have intros so long that Pig Virus would be happy because there's enough time to do all the important stuff.

Richard Christy sat in on today's Wrap-Up Show and there's Jack Antonoff will stop by tomorrow with Bleachers on The Howard Stern Show. They'll also do a session for Howard 101.

Go into the Howard 100 section and scroll down. You'll find stuff about Dracula Gottfried and Fartman.

 

[geosync]

Whoot. I enjoyed the Lane interview. That bit on the Birdcage when he goes Mom and Gene says 'I don't know who you are'

Exactly!

 

[geosync]

I-heart radio thing is a bit deal. My car's AM had a big channel kept telling us the channel is toast and to go somewhere else. Think it was a trump most recently.

 

[kingchuck69]

I-heart radio thing is a bit deal. My car's AM had a big channel kept telling us the channel is toast and to go somewhere else. Think it was a trump most recently.

AM is dying. Many stations have been shut down because the land the tower is on is worth more than the station itself.

 

[Kryptonite]

AM is dying. Many stations have been shut down because the land the tower is on is worth more than the station itself.

The ESPN Radio affiliate in my area is a digital subchannel (remember those?) of a local sports station.

Teslas don't even have AM radio because something about the batteries in the car.

AM radio is supposedly good sound quality and can be heard from farther away, but I never figured out how to do that.

 

[scotchandcigar]

AM radio is supposedly good sound quality

No.

and can be heard from farther away

Yes.

Every modern technology, whether radio waves, light waves, or any other electromagnetic wave, is defined and bounded by a frequency range.



Radio is broadcast by sending the music along a carrier wave. The carrier wave is what we tune our radios to. For FM (frequency modulation), we tune to the center frequency of the carrier. AM, or amplitude modulation, is an ancient way to generate a carrier wave, by actually messing with the volume, like this:



It's a very intrusive (to the music) way of generating a carrier signal. But it can be detected many hundreds of miles away.