Most people aren’t going to go to needless additional trouble or expense. That’s to be expected and I wouldn’t call it sad. I don’t understand the pining over something that’s just fading away (in practical not literal terms at the moment) and replaced with better alternatives that deliver a preferable experience.
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KYW No Longer Says "1060", Only "103.9."
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I wonder if folks who long for an AM resuscitation are maybe feeling nostalgic about it. Perhaps remembering simpler times, like being a child and listening to AM radio at home or in the car with their moms, dads, sisters, brothers, grandparents, etc. Something along those lines. Because otherwise, I don't really understand it either. Admittedly, this is coming from a person who still wishes (while realizing it won't happen) that HD could get its act together because I still believe it was a missed opportunity and could have been a fun and useful l entertainment/information technology if it hadn't simply been FUBAR'd. [I am the king of run-on sentences.] But AM was, for all intents and purposes, long ago supplanted by a free, universally adopted, and better option (FM).
I get the nostalgia. WIP in its MOR heyday was on the kitchen AM radio atop the fridge in our kitchen growing up. The primary preset on those manual push buttons in cars that sometimes only had AM. The Cash Call amount on a little blackboard thing next to the corded (!!!) phone…just in case. Nostalgia is a powerful drug.
FM was only on the giant, sofa-sized stereo console in the living room. Until we got portable “boom box” radios for our rooms and locked in to Hot Hits 98.
But I can separate nostalgia from reality. I don’t want to go back to tiny TVs with four or five channels. And vertical hold adjustments, lol. Nor home computers that cost a mortgage and had the power of a flea. And there’s barely any way my kids are tolerating commercials, let alone poor sound quality to boot. Nor should they.
Time marches on, and that can be a very good thing.
FM was only on the giant, sofa-sized stereo console in the living room. Until we got portable “boom box” radios for our rooms and locked in to Hot Hits 98.
But I can separate nostalgia from reality. I don’t want to go back to tiny TVs with four or five channels. And vertical hold adjustments, lol. Nor home computers that cost a mortgage and had the power of a flea. And there’s barely any way my kids are tolerating commercials, let alone poor sound quality to boot. Nor should they.
Time marches on, and that can be a very good thing.
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Who and what put it there? I thought most people on this board were fans of everything radio?My view on the current state of AM radio - in the graveyard and waiting for the dirt to pile up
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Father Time, who moved what AM listeners remained after the music moved to FM out of the demographic advertisers want to spend money to reach, and research, which made advertisers, agencies and station owners know that only your in-market listeners can do anything positive for your bottom line. It doesn't matter that a station can boast of reaching 38 states and five provinces if the overwhelming portion of the listeners that are patronizing that station's advertisers live within 50 miles of its transmitter, so why waste effort, money and power on AM? DXers and other "fans of everything radio" have never helped pay the bills, so no one actually involved with the business of radio is sad to send them off into history.
I’m not seeing how (a) being a “fan” of radio is the same as not acknowledging that one aspect is at death’s door, or (b) how the makeup of a message board’s population would somehow stave off the inevitable decline of an inferior product. Am I missing something?
Not really. As of June 30, 2021: "In the first quarter of 2021, Sirius XM had approximately 34.5 million subscribers, down from 34.77 million in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. Until now subscriptions have peaked with 34.91 million in the final quarter of 2019." Sirius XM - number of subscribers in the U.S. 2011-2021 | Statista.
That makes sense. Some heritage S/XM subscribers may still have multiple radios, but with the limited sound quality of sat delivery and the ability to stream better sound bundled with each radio subscription (XM Platinum Plan and Music & Entertainment Plan), I would think that most out-of-car SXM listening is done via streaming now.
I had multiple radios/subscriptions from 2003-2018. Now I have a vehicle radio and streaming devices using a single subscription.
You either don't listen to conservative talk radio or you don't understand the concept of 'hate.' Stop embarrassing yourself.
Politics has its own section on this forum. This ain't it.
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Not shocked to hear Audacy removing the 1060 AM part but then again Audacy itself has to consider where the median audience is at. It's either through FM Radio or on dashboard apps in newer cars made in the past 5 years approximately.
Im not sure for now if Audacy has signed a deal to be on Android Auto or Apple Carplay for now.
The description was and is apt.
Reducing views you don't understand to inflamatory labels like 'hate' shows your fear of, and disregard for others. It's not a good look, despite what some may have told you.
It's also inappropriate in this particular forum. Civility 101.
And that is because around the country we have a good amount of commonality in music styles and tastes. There will be an AC station, a county station, a CHR, an urban one and so on in just about every market and they will play substantially the same songs.
We used to have regional hits within each format, but the Internet, consolidated record companies and more national TV services have reduced regionalisms.
as to format innovation you can count the “new” formats of each decade on 5hevfingers of one hand with digits left over. Radio reflects broad tastes, and does it well.
The format is not remotely civil. The hosts are not civil. Whatever the listeners may be, the format is dedicated to spreading misinformation, misrepresentation and malice.
It's easy to innovate when you have 100 channels and a national user base. Much harder to do when the law limits you to 6 stations per market. The problem for you really isn't the quality of the local stations, but that they don't fit your personal taste. For that, there's the option of spending $15 a month on Sirius, or subscribing to an online service. However, the most popular options on Sirius are not much different than the local options on FM. Just no commercials.
I seem to recall people saying they listened to this as far north as Myrtle Beach. Although the rocker there was a daytime-only AM. Maybe it wasn't on the air yet.
I listened to Rush Limbaugh on that station at one time!
With digital TV, it's all or nothing at all. So the minute there's a problem, you get nothing. Or am I wrong? If I'm right, it doesn't really improve things.
I was only a few miles outside a town where a 1000-watt station when I started having problems with power lines, but I would assume that close there's not going to be a problem. But the serious problems I was having earlier today because I wasn't close to the station wouldn't be helped.
I’m curious, what ”innovation” is recommended for local radio? What magic bullet is out there? One that, importantly, would make money?
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