I still say that North America invented FM broadcasting. In order to reduce hiss and since sound reproduction equipment in those days didn't have extended treble frequencies, they designed pre-emphasis that is excessive. When the Europeans finally got around to planning their FM broadcasts, microphones, speakers and recording equipment improved enough to show that less pre-emphasis is best.
North America is leaving their over-compressed and ad-laden ordinary FM broadcasting in the past. They use digital-FM and satellite broadcasts now with the old bugs ironed out. Even internet high bit-rate MP3's sound pretty good. :lol: