New England's first all-digital AM station goes live, right here in the Boston area

WSRO-AM astatine 650 connected your dial, yesterday became the archetypal AM presumption successful New England to person to the integer HD format, the folks astatine the Boston Radio Interest mailing database report.

If you person a car oregon plain aged vigor that gets HD signals, tune to 650 and, similar magic, the small HD icon volition airy up, similar it usually does connected FM but ne'er did connected AM.

The alteration volition supposedly mean amended prime reception - nary much static - for the station's existent jazz and 30's-era music.

But unless you're successful MetroWest, beryllium prepared for the presumption to abruptly vanish connected you astatine nighttime if you walk by a elevation oregon ample gathering betwixt you and the presumption - which drops its powerfulness output astatine night. Unlike accepted AM, which dilatory degrades, integer signals are benignant of each oregon thing - either it comes successful truly good or, boom, not astatine all, astatine slightest until you get retired from under, oh, the West Roxbury Parkway broadside of Bellevue Hill successful West Roxbury.