If you do any online search, it will be done by AI. If you want humans, go to a library.
But be my guest and do research on the nurse requirement. Let me know.
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If you do any online search, it will be done by AI. If you want humans, go to a library.
But be my guest and do research on the nurse requirement. Let me know.
I worry people are forgetting how to Google the old fashioned way.
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There. A page of results limited to the real web and 100% human-made content -- no post-AI or even pre-AI content mills. And the search took place without a natural language-like query, which would have invoked Google's AI to figure out what I wanted. Instead, I knew what patterns would dumb-match against the desired content, and gave Google old fashioned OR and AND logic both inside and once between multiple quoted phrases, to fuzz-match against singular/plural variations or synonymous terms.
If Google still employed AI on that search behind the scenes, there's nothing I can do. But I used the "search language" of Google from two decades ago, and in return, I got the kind of satisfyingly clean and accurate results Google used to give me two decades ago. I guess the real secret weapon was using before: (after: also exists if you ever need it), but phrases with logic does magic in its own right. Enabling verbatim search mode, which is hidden but still there, even more so.
That's what you think. A search engine doesn't use humans to do the searching. It's all automated.
But there are some "stations" on AM that have valuable content that should be preserved either on an FM/translator or other audio service, and other that have a certain lifespan that can be lived out profitably as AM continues to decline or other technologies develop.
"AM: Best if used by 2030". It may still be edible after that, but it won't taste as good.
I think it was clear I meant the search results consisting of human-made web pages, not that the search results were typed up for me by a human.
Considering Google returned them to me in 0.02 seconds, that would have been a terrible strain on their wrists...
Sometimes, it won't have all the information it needs and has to go back for more if challenged. I still find it pretty useful though.
Not counting the top ten markets and 1070 in Memphis, haven't most Commercial AM stations that have financially viable programming acquired a FM signal or on iHeart or competing service.
Since 1070 in Memphis is an iHeart station they should be on that platform.
I am sure there are some outliers in some small US markets most folks don't follow.
Are you using a router provided by your ISP? A lot of ISPs cheap out on the routers they provide customers.
Not every viable commercial AM station can get an FM translator.
Most AM's had a shot at a translator if there was spectrum FM available. I don't know how many AMs without FM signals are not of a part cluster. If a music format doesn't perform financially in a cluster then any astute owner puts the AM programming on the failed FM. If a stand alone commercial SM is profitable they should be able to buy something on a sub 50 market if they can out bid a religious operator.
The station I started out at WDBL had Class A FM 94.3. They sold it and now they are Hispanic religious. BTW there is no FM channel for a decent FM translator. It's a long and complicated story but IMHO they blew it.
Small markets like Milwaukee and Cincinnati?
Cincinnati has had FM signals sold in the last decade. Don't know the cap game there if you are talking about iHeart, they have a cluster and could have worked something better than what 700 has. If you had a really profitable AM in Milwaukee you should have bought 1540 and it's translator with the excellent CP: 960 feet HAAT 99 watts non directional around class A FM coverage.
Cincinnati and Milwaukee are not "small" markets. They are considered Large markets. Cincinnati has a hilly terrain issue with translators. It's difficult to cover the market even with two of them. WLW is doing fine as a standalone and you wouldn't want to weaken it on a translator. If the rules change, maybe they can grab one of the underperforming FMs across the street at Cumulus and place it there. There's one FM in particular that would be a great candidate for it.
My point exactly!
A non drive shift in Cincinnati market in 1993 pay wasn't that much more than the Louisville market. At least that was what I was offered.
If the commission is serious about saving AM why don't they allow "major modifications" and let anyone who is interested modify his / her's station to increase coverage and that advantage of the deleted stations channel.
Example when Unban One finishes destroying WBT and turns in the licence someone with a directional plant (WHKY) could easily set up something with a new phasor and upgrading 2 of the transmission cables between the phasors cabinet and the tower. They already have the 50 kw transmitter. But the 3 channel rule prevents it.
Let the successful operators do what they can to improve their signal.
Example when Unban One finishes destroying WBT and turns in the licence someone with a directional plant (WHKY) could easily set up something with a new phasor and upgrading 2 of the transmission cables between the phasors cabinet and the tower. They already have the 50 kw transmitter. But the 3 channel rule prevents it.
Let the successful operators do what they can to improve their signal.
Because it costs a lot of money. AM as a system is way more expensive than FM.
It's cheaper to either have an FM translator or refer people to your mobile app.
Whatever happened to the FCC's plan to finally put the clear channels out of their misery and allow daytimers to run full-power at night? I suppose the current administration has simply forgotten about it, now that they're more obsessed with killing network TV than saving AM radio.