Comment Re:Argument against seems week, or bad data (Score 0) 282
My not-so-vast nation of Singapore has a serious problem with coverage by radio stations, and indeed internet and anything else that needs broadcasting. The vast majority of the population here is concentrated in a large city. Which means FM radio station signals die out pretty fast as soon as you start driving from the population centers. So AM still has a role here, even if the quality is often sketchy. In fact, it's something of a life saver when there's a major emergency like a huge brushfire. In 2009, when massive fires engulfed large areas of Victoria, Australia, the AM stations of the Australian Broadcast Corporation did nothing but broadcast emergency information. There are terrifying recordings of warnings to evacuate, naming many towns. Or worse still, saying it was too late and to stay in place... Anyway, AM still has a big role there at least.