Not everything needs to be local. EMF is clearly doing something quite right for its target audience. There isn’t a need to make a Chicago station sound different from New York…or Cedar Rapids Iowa. Most “local” TV that isn’t newscasts is national in some form. Streaming services, cable networks…national. People want good content, and whether the better content is from down the street or across the continent isn’t the issue.
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Also true, and as I said, sometimes the national format of K-Love is enough to hold me over. But seriously though, when I am in the mood for anything national on the radio, I put it on AM (how tragically ironic is that), not on the NCE part of the FM band.
The Nielsen (Arbitron) diary system measures at home, at work and in-car. Using the home and work data, a study of multiple markets comprising millions of diary entries showed that 80% of AM listening is in the 10 mV/m contour and 95% inside the 5 mV/m contour.
While population density is a variable, as is transmitter location, we did this study using ten markets over a several year period, so station specific issues were averaged out or "flattened".
Fully agree. I'd go as far as to say that radio loses out by being local and parochial when the world isn't like that nowadays. The internet has shrunk the world, we all visit the same social networks and watch the same TV and movies, so why does every town need a full lineup of often questionable talent?
There's a place for local content, but music dayparts aren't really it. In the case of stations like K-LOVE, the national reach of the programming is a selling point for listeners who enjoy the feeling of being part of a wider nationwide community of listeners and contributors to the station.
I've moved around a lot, especially in the past few years, and don't feel any particular connection to the place where I live now - it's just a place to rest my head. Why would I want to listen to people on the radio talking about this town all day long, when I can choose to listen to the best content from around the world on my phone? More and more people are in my position.
I feel you. Well, thanks to the internet, I will happily just pull up my favorite station from home, until I slowly come around to "trusting" the stations in my new community. But eventually we all will get used to our new surroundings, even new stations.
I don't think the United States or Canada ever used longwave for broadcasting.
WXBK (94.7 The Block)/New York Names Skip Dillard Brand Manager
"MEDIACO R&B WBLS and Top 40/Rhythmic WQHT (HOT 97)/NEW YORK VP/National And Community Partnerships and former longtime WBLS and Gospel WLIB-A VP/Programming-OM SKIP DILLARD has been named Brand Manager of crosstown AUDACY Classic Hip Hop WXBK (94.7 THE BLOCK)."
"MEDIACO R&B WBLS and Top 40/Rhythmic WQHT (HOT 97)/NEW YORK VP/National And Community Partnerships and former longtime WBLS and Gospel WLIB-A VP/Programming-OM SKIP DILLARD has been named Brand Manager of crosstown AUDACY Classic Hip Hop WXBK (94.7 THE BLOCK)."
In fact, longwave has never used for broadcasting in North America and South America, which make up ITU Region 2. Only ITU Region 1 has used longwave for broacasting.
Not exactly broadcasting, but in the '70s, growing up on Boston's North Shore, I remember hearing aviation weather reports being read over the steady Morse Code IDs on a couple of beacons -- TUK Nantucket on 194 and LQ Revere on 382. Are there any beacons still offering voice content?
Huh, odd. Just like how DAB never made it to the US, and had short, unsuccessful trials in Canada. I am fascinated as to why LW and even Shortwave was never adopted here the way it was in Europe, particularly because it feels like we are reaching a turning point in radio. What new technologies will we adopt, what will we stay away from, and if that reflects our identity in the way our response to LW did.
Neat!
I don't recall or believe it was ever used in the Western Hemisphere. In fact, the term in Spanish for the AM band is "onda larga" which means "long wave". So they would have had to call true long wave "longer wave"!
I think rock is far more inclusive than country. Look at Lenny Kravitz or Jimi Hendrix or Thin Lizzy, living color, tv on the radio, Gary Clark Jr or even willow smith. All those people are more popular in their generes. Than Mickey Guyton or Jimi Allen are in country
Right now. I say this as someone with zero interest in country, it's broad appeal is growing nation wide. Actually, we can say at least in North America, as Canada has stations as well.
There are several reasons for each:
First, DAB. In the US, there is little state operation of radio stations, while in Europe where DAB has been deployed in some nations, the government ran all or nearly all the radio stations and they made decisions based on operational considerations, not competitive ones. Canada tried it, but the commercial broadcasters were not enthusiastic and consumers did not rush to buy sets. In the US, part of the band was allocated for military / official use and not available.
Longwave and shortwave have government based issues, too. In the early 30's, when short wave and high power AM were considered, a number of influential senators did not like the idea of one station or one owner controlling too much area. The limits on ownership to 7 stations came out of fear that radio could be politically more powerful than any newspaper. Shortwave was regulated to not serve within national borders. And higher power was restricted to one station with an experimental license.
Even then, by the early 40's RCA was ordered to sell off one of its two networks (They had both the NBC Red and Blue webs) and duopolies in the same city were ordered to end.
The idea in the US was to make radio local and limited regional, not national. In many parts of Europe, the opposite goal was sought by state owned broadcasters: few transmitters, high power, national or regional coverage.
I think the radio format that is in most trouble is Urban Contempary. Loot at the ratings WVEE in atlanta used to get and what it gets now
AM, mostly high on the dial as the ones on ships and old gun stations could not put up towers high enough for low-dial AM to function.
Thanks. I'm always interested in the history of the era.
There are two big issues, and one smaller one.
First, the lyrics of such a high percentage of hip hop songs are not airable on the radio.
Second, the hip hop fan is a large user of streaming.
And also, in markets with high percentages of Hispanics, many if not most Hispanic hip hop listeners have gone to stations or streams that play reggaetón or are sharing time with them since reggaetón is closer to Hispanic culture.
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